Cold War
Submitted by mguajardo319 on May 2, 2011
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Cold War
The so-called Cold War is a bipolar struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, and their allies and client states, that lasted from 1945 to 1991. On an ideological level, the conflict pitted democracy and free-market capitalism against Marxism and political communism. On a strategic level, the Cold War was a proxy struggle in which both Washington and Moscow used allies and satellite states to fight substate and regional battles while avoiding another world war.
The roots of the superpower conflict lay in the distrust and misinterpretation that existed among the Allies at the end of World War II. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) sought to create a buffer...
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