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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 180. Chapters: Renaissance, Elizabethan era, Age of Enlightenment, Historiography, Victorian era, Periodization, Dark Ages, Pre-Columbian era, Information Age, British Regency, Edwardian era, Cold War, Postmodernity, Modern history, Age of Discovery, Timeline of European exploration, History of the hippie movement, Mycenaean Greece, Atomic Age, Regence, Greek Dark Ages, Tudor period, Imagination Age, Digital Revolution, Helladic period, Axial Age, Georgian era, Vietnamese era name, Belle Epoque, Chinese era name, Jacobean era, Caroline era, Heraldic visitation, Napoleonic era, Grunderzeit, Space Age, Post-9/11, Jet Age, Machine Age, Age of Revolution, Second Thirty Years War, Postclassical Era, Silver age, Jean de Tinan, Long nineteenth century, The short twentieth century, Post Medieval. Excerpt: The Cold War (Russian: ) was the continuing state from about 1947 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World - primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies - and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies. Although the chief military forces never engaged in a major battle with each other, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race. After the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, the USSR and the US saw each other as profound enemies of their basic ways of life. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, annexing some and maintaining others as satellite states, some of ...
