Capitalism vs Communism during the Cold War
 The cold war emerged from a series of superpower initiatives and responses after World War II that created an environment of tension and distrust between the U.S. and Russia.

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From its origins in 1945 to its conclusion in the 1990s, the Cold War has witnessed many successes, failures, and consequences. 

 Although the primary participants' military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed their conflict through different military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, also by extensive aid to states that were deemed vulnerable.

There were several cases of espionage as well as     propaganda, conventional and nuclear arms      races   appeals to different natural nations, continuous rivalry at sports   events, and even with technological competitions such as the Space race.

                                                                                                   The Big Three (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin)

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The Cold War featured periods of relative calm as well as periods of high tension like the Berlin Blockade, which started on June 24, 1948 and ended on May 12 1949.

The Korean War began on June 24, 1950 and lasted for three years when it finally stopped in July, 1953.
 
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 had to do when Berlin’s borders were closed down as well as when they started to construct the Berlin wall.


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