Cold War Group
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akannan Teacher
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Posted by akannan on Friday August 28, 2009 at 5:27 PMThe Cold War was the term used to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War. After the defeat of the Axis powers and the fall of Hitler, the Soviet Union possessed the world's largest army. The United States possessed the most powerful weapon in the atomic bomb, which had just been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat Japan. Both nations had allied with one another in the war to defeat their common enemy, but this was merely a front to mask the contempt both had for one another. The Cold War was the term used to describe the antagonism between democratic America and communist Russia. While there was never any armed notions of conflict between both nations, the Cold War was the battle of ideologies and was waged in nations all over the world between proxy nations. Whereas a traditional war has a defined field of conflict, the Cold War was expansive, all over the world. Eastern European nations, South East Asia, as well as other regions of the world served as the setting for nations that were either advocating the Russian or American thought processes of democracy or communism.
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jfava Teacher
Middle SchoolPosted by jfava on Sunday August 30, 2009 at 8:04 PMTo supplement the previous answer - the reason it was called "The Cold War" was due to the fact that no gunfire, missiles, bombings, etc, occurred. The "Cold War" was one of bitter political differences that escalated to the cusp of a "hot war" knowing that such a war would not be in the interest of either country.
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Posted by mromero23 on Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Cold War was the term used to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War.
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