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Why Did The Cold War Never Truly End?

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After World War II the alliance between the USSR and the United States, which was forged out of necessity in a fight against a common enemy, quickly broke down. The end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations elevated the United States to being defender of democracy and the free world, putting America directly at odds with the USSR and its communist allies. The result of this tension was the Cold War which lasted from 1945 to 1991, although some people would say that the Cold War never truly ended. During those years, the USSR and the USA partook in an arms race the likes of which the world had never seen before, climaxing with a record breaking 60 megaton hydrogen bomb by the Soviets and putting a man on the moon by the American.

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