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Cold War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism, centering around the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their military alliance partners. |
 | | Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. |
 | | The end of the Cold War did not resolve the problem of international control of nuclear energy, and it reemerged as a factor in the beginning of the Long War declared by the United States in 2006 as its official military doctrine. |
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