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The period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the mid 1940s until the early 1990s.

Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.

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What is the cold war, I still believe something of the sort is still going on....

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