The Cold WarThis is a featured page

What?: Conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union for world domination.
Where?: The entire worldIron Curtain
When?: 1945-1991
Who?: Presdient Truman, George Marshall, Josef Stalin, Mikahail Gorbachev, Fidel Castro, Presdient Kennedy, President Reagan, Nikita Krushchev and Mao Zedong to name a few.
Why?: In theory it was a conflcit between Capitalism and Democracy on one side versus Communism and Dictatorship on the other.
How?: Each side sought to out maneuver the other side and to gain allies in an effort to spread its ideology.
Importance: Created 46 years of fear and conflict and led to many of the problems faced by the world today.
Related Terms: Mutually assured destruction, Nuclear Weapons, ICBM, SDI, CIA, KGB, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain
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