The Cold War was a political, economic, social, military, informational, scientific and sports confrontation initiated in the Second World War over the western (capitalist) blockade led by the United States and the eastern bloc led by the Soviet Union.
Its origin was in 1945, during the tensions of the Soviet Union (beginning of Perestroika in 1985 fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and hit State in the USSR, 1991). Neither party took direct action against the other, for what was called the “cold war” conflict.
The reasons for this confrontation are essentially ideological and political. Finally, the Soviet Union financed and supported revolutions and social governments, while the United States gave open support and propagated destabilizations and coups, mainly in Latin America, in both cases human rights were seriously violated.
Although these clashes did not lead to a world war, the entity and severity of the economic, political and ideological conflicts involved marked a significant part of the history of the second half of the 20th century. The two superpowers certainly wanted to implant their model of government around the world.
Some subsidiary wars of this period were: the Greek Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the First Afghan War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Angolan War, the Indo-Pakistani War, and the Gulf War.
In the specific sense of pointing to the geopolitical tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, the term Cold War has been attributed to the American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch. On April 16, 1947, Baruch made a speech in which he said: "Let us not fool ourselves: we are immersed in a cold war." It should be noted that in 1945 George Orwell made a reference even before the term when he explained: "a state that was both invincible and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors." The term was also popularized by columnist Walter Lippmann with the 1947 edition of a book titled Cold War.
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