In 1945, after World War II, there was an end to the alliance between the United States, Britain, and the USSR. If all of this hadn’t been a problem, a rivalry between communist and capitalist societies had led to what is known today as The Cold War. It has been known to this day that The Cold War not only had many causes but also had many effects.
Free society would have called this war World War III, but instead they used a fancy-pants name “cold war”.
It was called The Cold War, because it didn’t actually lead up to armed or “hot” conflict (as they would put it), it just kind of led away from using weapons. At the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four sections of occupations that were controlled by Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. A lack of agreement on Germany to be unified marked the beginning of the Cold War. The Cold War was the most important political issue of the postwar period.
As the Cold War came to a halt,......
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