Cold War

The Cold War was a time of geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union and their  allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term Cold War is used because there was no direct large-scale battle between the two superpowers, but they each supported the other in major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict was based on the ideological and geopolitical struggle of the two superpowers for global influence  succeeding their role as allies in World War II, leading to victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. In addition to nuclear weapons and conventional military deployments, the struggle for dominance has taken the form of indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, extensive trade embargoes, sports diplomacy, and technological competitions such as the space race. The Cold War began shortly after the end of World War II, gradually subsided with the  split of China and the Soviet Union between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China in 1961, and ended in collapse, Of the Soviet Union in 1991.