Distinctive features ofColdWar
The Cold War was an historical phenomenon categorised by non-combative warfare due to the ever-present threat of nuclear weaponry armament. It began post World War II between what was the Soviet Union and the United States of America (US), as a mutual condemnation of each other's social, political and economic ideals embodied in polar ideologies: communism and capitalism under a liberal democratic state. As the Cold War developed, it became used by the US to contain communism. The USSR tacitly challenged the US to a technological race, in which, for all major dimensions except space in the late 1950s, the US was in the lead. Most significatly, it resulted in the escalation of nuclear weapons which dictated their respective foreign policies until the arms race ended for Russia in a forced strategic retreat in the mid-1980s. Ironically, this was due to the state of the devasting domestice economy which could no longer withstand excessive military expenditure. The Cold War was essentially distinguished by the nuclear peace that was created, but it also had an economic and globalising effect, including on the Third World, as both Superpowers strove to limit each other's influence. Many agree that the Cold War ended with the demolition
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