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The Vietnam War: The Cold War

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The Cold War was a form of political tension after World War II that occurred between powers in the Soviet Union and the powers of the United States. Most people do not know the exact dates this occurred, but a communal timeframe is between 1947, the year a US foreign policy was started pledging to help nations threatened by Soviet domination was proclaimed, and either 1989, when communism fell, or 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. The term “cold” is used because there was no huge scale fighting straight between the two sides, but they each supported major regional wars. These were known as proxy wars.
The cold war divided the temporary wartime association against Germany, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as two superpowers

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