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Cold war
The Cold War (Russian:
Холо́дная
война́) (1947–1991) was the continuing state of political conflict, military
tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after World War
II (1939–1945), primarily between the USSR
and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western
world, particularly the United States. Although the primary participants'
military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed the conflict
through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive
aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars,
espionage, propaganda, a nuclear arms race,
economic and technological competitions, such as the Space Race.
Despite being allies against the Axis powers
and having the most powerful military forces among peer nations, the USSR and
the US disagreed about the configuration of the post-war world while occupying
most of Europe.
The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it
occupied, annexing some as Soviet Socialist Republics and
maintaining others as satellite states, some of which were later consolidated
as the Warsaw
Pact (1955–1991). The US and some western European countries established containment
of communism
as a defensive policy, establishing alliances such as NATO to that end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
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