Cold War America
The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war iihistorians do not fully agree on the dates but the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet unionthe term cold is used because there was no large.
Cold war america. The cold war began after world war two. In americas domestic cold war this election was more like antietam a brutally bloody stalemate that wounded both sides than a gettysburg or vicksburg which pointed to a decisive victory for. Cold war the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after world war ii between the united states and the soviet union and their respective allies. It was waged on political economic and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
The cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly.