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Cold War is a name given to the relationship of political and military tension between the Western Bloc (US and its allied countries) and the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies).Historians agree that the Cold War covers the period between 1945 and 1991 .
After of World War 2 USSR and USA were the last strongest countries. Both of them were very different. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the communist country while USA was democratic with free economy. The Americans were very happy that the Cold War was over. In 1947 the president of America said that US will help Greece and Turkey to fight with communist countries and allies of the Soviet Union. After that the Cold War began. It's called Cold because even if there is struggle between USA and USSR, they never fight in a direct way, (as in "hot war") from the beginning until the end in 1991. |