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What does Cold War mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, 1945–91.
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Think about what we did in World War I, World War II, throughout the Cold War.
The recessive 1930s brought the reversal of this globalism while a new one was later formed during the Cold War.
As already noted, Soviet power was certainly an important element in the Cold War balance of power in East Asia.
During the relative peace following the Korean conflict, America rearmed for the Cold War.
None of this would have happened if there was still a Cold War and if there was still a Soviet Union.
Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts.

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