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13 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
3 days ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
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3 days ago · What was the Cold War? How did the Cold War end? Why was the Cuban missile crisis such an important event in the Cold War? What was Harry S. Truman's reaction to communist North Korea's attempt to seize noncommunist South Korea in 1950? Should the United States maintain the embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba?
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Jun 25, 2024 · Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the Cold War that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a shooting war in October 1962 over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
3 days ago · Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were fully established in 1933 as the succeeding bilateral ties to those between the Russian Empire and the United States, which lasted from 1776 until 1917; they were also the predecessor to the current bilateral ties between the Russian Federation and the United States that began in ...
Jun 18, 2024 · Study Guide: The Cold War 1945 - 1980. After WWII, the United States and USSR had vastly different goals and ideals, leading to a conflict over which country would become the dominant world superpower. The term "Cold War" stems from political tension and hostility that falls short of open warfare.
Jun 29, 2024 · Active Edge: The Army, Germany and the Cold War. In 1945, British troops occupied Germany alongside their wartime Soviet allies. But in the years that followed, growing tension between East and West evolved into the Cold War.
