what is meant by the term Cold War?

Answer 1

A "Hot War" involves fighting, battles, wars, and deaths.
A "Cold War" is naturally the opposite - a war fought more with words, influencing others, and maintaining advantages over your opponent(s).

There are less direct battles, and wars in a Cold War - they are fought by proxy states fighting limited wars, and by espionage.

Answer 2

The Term 'Cold War' is a real war but without the violence. It could be a cyber war, sanctions or arguments and political disagreements between the two (or more) countries. Like the US and Russia today. Or Iran and Israel. They're all cold wars because both sides are just full of talk. I know the first Cold War was between the USSR and America which nearly led to a full out war between the two countries because the USSR had placed missiles in Cuba, and Americans found out about this and believed that those missiles were there for and attack on America.

Answer 3

Cold War, term used to describe the post-World War II struggle between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies. During the Cold War period, which lasted from the mid-1940s until the end of the 1980s, international politics were heavily shaped by the intense rivalry between these two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented: democracy and capitalism in the case of the United States and its allies, and Communism in the case of the Soviet bloc. The principal allies of the United States during the Cold War included Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, and Canada. On the Soviet side were many of the countries of Eastern Europe—including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, and Romania—and, during parts of the Cold War, Cuba and China. Countries that had no formal commitment to either bloc were known as neutrals or, within the Third World, as nonaligned nations (see Nonaligned Movement).

Answer 4

It was a very dark and depressing world. Countries were at war but no one fought. Instead everyone was under the threat of an attack fomr whatever country they were up against.

Russia wanted the Atom bomb and USA had it. Both sides were trying to build bigger and better weapons. It was all just a waste of time

Answer 5

A cold war is a war where neither sides attack. Usually they are almst liek competitions who can get the biggest army or strongest bomb. our cold war statrted the space rac and tohers like that