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The Cold War | Summary, Facts, and Information
History, Politics

The Cold War | Summary, Facts, and Information

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the world's two superpower countries the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after the finish of World War II. In the second half of the 20th century, they are engaged in a face-off without direct confrontation for almost 45 years. Major European powerful country is weakened after more than 60 million deaths in 6 years of fighting.Two superpowers remain in the world: the United States of America and the USSR, who fought together as allies to defeat Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. The USSR or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a vast area covering one-sixth of the land surface of the planet.It is a federal-state under a communist regime, consisti...
20 Amazing Cold War Facts That Might You Never Know
Politics

20 Amazing Cold War Facts That Might You Never Know

The United States and the Soviet Union were good friends During World War II, Both fighting together against the Axis powers. However, the U.S. was worried about communism and the despotic Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. To put it bluntly, America feared that the commies as it liked to say would take over the world. For that reason, the U.S. wanted to contain communist expansionism. But the Soviets were building an arms stockpile of arms, including atomic weapons. In this way, a weapons contest was in transit. It's an idea, Bernard Mannes Baruch, an American agent, and multimillionaire authored the term Cold War, which fundamentally implies war without military activity. #20 Bernard Mannes was a rich man and also an advisor to all U.S. presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman. He’s...