Why was the Cold War, called "The Cold War?"?

Answer 1

Cold war means war without physical harm nor use of a deadly weapon, its a war that is in a silent type, only the two rivals know their war. Usually cold wars ends up longer than the war of physical type, soldiers against soldier, allied versus russian and the likes.

Answer 2

The Cold War got its name because there was no actual armed conflict between the Soviets and the Americans, thus there was no "hot" war. The wars that took place during that time period were fought with proxies of the Soviet Union. In Korea, the enemy was initially North Korean forces, then the Chinese army got involved. In Vietnam, the fight was with local Vietnamese led by Ho Chi Minh. Since the United States and the Soviet Union never directly fought one another, the conflict between them never became "hot." The Cold War was essentially an arms race coupled with massive amounts of espionage.

Answer 3

George Orwell coined the term "cold war" in his 1945 essay "You and the Atomic Bomb". Here is the excerpt from the essay:
"James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications — that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors."

Answer 4

And just who called it "The Cold War"

If you called it any other name, that particular war was the youngest and therefore immature and would start crying. It really wanted to be called "The Tall and Sexy War with Great Hair"

Answer 5

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Why was the Cold War, called "The Cold War?"?

Answer 6

There was no actual war, it was a clash of ideologies.
Russia, or the Soviet Union and her allies believed in Communism, which is basically each man is equal and is entitled to an equal share of the wealth of his country, so all property (companies, utilities, housing even tractors) is owned by the government in trust for the people.
The West, mainly symbolised by the US believes in Capitalism, that is basically individuals work for other individuals, in privately owned companies.
Each system had inherent flaws, in Communism, who shares out the wealth? (for a metaphorical look at Communism read Orwell's Animal Farm)
Capitalism results in a few people having most of the wealth (like Bill Gates) and most of the people little or nothing to live on.

Answer 7

The term "Cold War" was created by Americans in 1947 to describe tensions between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. A Cold War involves politics, economics and propaganda not actual physical battles.

Answer 8

There were no hot bullets flying between the two antagonists....USSR and USofA. They used proxies to do their dirty work.... Althouth the US Navy was depth charging nuclear armed Soviet subs outside of Cuba in 1962....but that's about as close we came to a hot war.

Answer 9

Because there was no fighting and it was a unless war.....or it could of just been during the winter.;)

Answer 10

no hot battles - just diplomacy and bluff calling