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    cold war

    noun

    • 1. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
    • Ongoing political rivalry

      • The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.
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  3. Nov 16, 2019 · What is Cold War? The Cold War was a period (1945-1991) of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and its satellite states (the Eastern European countries), and the United States with its allies (the Western European countries) after World War II.

  4. Oct 27, 2009 · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension and competition between communist and Western democracies after World War II. Learn about the causes, events, consequences and legacy of the Cold War, as well as the Space Race, the arms race and the Red Scare.

  5. A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates.

  6. The Cold War was a political rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their allies after World War II. It was a nuclear stalemate that lasted until 1991 and shaped the global order.

  7. The Cold War (1947-1991) was the tense fighting between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union (also called the USSR) and its allies between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union.

  8. 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.

  9. The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their military alliance partners.