The Cold War

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Discusses its dominance in world affairs. The United States and the Soviet Union engaged in ideological, political and economic battle. Use of poor, underdeveloped Third World nations in the battle between the two super powers. Major events of the Cold War. Collapse of the Soviet Union. Nuclear threat.

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"The Cold War dominated world affairs for half a century, with the United States and the Soviet Union doing ideological, political and economic battle, and using Third World nations (most significantly Vietnam and Afghanistan) to do indirect military battle with one another. The major events of the Cold War, from the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, can be understood only in this context of mutual fear, hatred and distrust between the two superpowers. Despite the fact they were allies in fighting Hitler's Germany, the two quickly established the Cold War as a way to exert their power at home and abroad and to prevent the other from gaining footholds in the world, again, especially in the poor, underdeveloped nations of the Third World.

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