What is Cold War actually?

Answer 1

The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.

The global contest was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along cold war lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

The greatest fear during the Cold War was the risk it would escalate into a full nuclear exchange with hundreds of millions killed. Both sides developed a deterrence policy that prevented problems from escalating beyond limited localities. Nuclear weapons were never used in the Cold War.

The Cold War cycled through a series of high and low tension years (the latter called detente). It ended in the period between 1989 and 1991, with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and later the Soviet Union. Historians continue to debate the causes in the 1940s, and the reasons for the Soviet collapse in the 1980s.

Answer 2

Nuclear stand off between the United Nations and the Soviet Union. Deemed a "cold war" because there was no sort of actual, physical conflict.

Answer 3

cold war happened after world war 2
all the european countries were depressed of their damages
so they all went to a bar
there they found only 1 big bottle of beer
all started fighting 4 tht peg
finally 1 got it
when she drank it was ice cold

HENCE IT WAS KNOWN AS COLD WAR

Answer 4

In general, a war fought with politics not guns.

Answer 5

Its when two countries dont like each other but undestand that fighting with weapons would be too dangerous or worthless.

Answer 6

A nuclear armistice between USA and USSR, rebel scum

Answer 7

fear of a war.

Both sides fear the other will attack, so they make a defensive stance.

Answer 8

When nations are not fighting, but are preparing to fight if necessary.

Answer 9

not useing weapons

Answer 10

fighting in the winter time..in snow...........burrrr..........ya know its cold.......