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| | Cold War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | 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 United States and the Soviet Union, and 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, xenophobia, espionage, and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. |
 | | Some date the onset of the Cold War to the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, regarding the United States use of nuclear weapons as a warning to the Soviet Union, which was about to join the war against the nearly defeated Japan. |
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