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Long Term Effects Of The Cold War

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The cold war was a long war that lasted from the end of ww2 in 1945 and ended in 1991. The war had many proxy wars that many American lives died fighting for. The cold war started because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings that happened at the end of ww2. The advancements in weaponry and technology caused the US and USSR to have a race to see who was the best super power in the world for about 45 years. The cold war began because of an arms race and each country was a threat to each other, because of nuclear weapons.

Tensions grew between the US and USSR at the end of ww2 because of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The USSR worried about it because of how willing the US was about using them. This started an

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