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| the cold war definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | was a political war between ussr and its communist allies against the united states and other | 4 sets | |
| 2 | 1945-1990 | 4 sets | |
| 3 | refers to the period following wwii until the collapse of the soviet union in the 1990s.this was a period when much of the world was divided by the communist/non-communist battle for military and political superiority. while the usa and the ussr were unquestionably the world's two superpowers, they avoided direct military conflict. instead, they sought to bring other countries into their fold. | 4 sets | |
| 4 | 1945 - 1990 | 3 sets | |
| 5 | following world war ii: a war of ideologies between democracy and communism, primarily between the western nations of europe and the us, and the eastern nations of the soviet union | 2 sets | |
| 6 | greatly sped up the technological and scientific developement of western nations | 2 sets | |
| 7 | 1946 to 1990 | 2 sets | |
| 8 | state of tension between nations without actually fighting | 1 set | |
| 9 | 1945-1991 , a competition for power around the world. between the usa (and its allies) and the soviet union (and its allies) | 1 set | |
| 10 | war where no shots were fired...between us and russia (ussr) | 1 set | |
| 11 | 1945 - 50 | 1 set | |
| 12 | coined by walter lippman; 1949-1989 - post-war struggle; fought via 3rd world countries/technical race/america outspent the soviets/war of ideologies | 1 set | |
| 13 | democracy vs communism (us. vs soviets) | 1 set | |
| 14 | the period of hostility and suspicion after wwii between the united states and the soviet union and its satellites and powers and the powers of the western world under the leadership of the united states. | 1 set | |
| 15 | conflict between the united states and the soviet union dating from the later 1940s to the late 1980s, when the two countries competed for world influence without declared military action | 1 set | |
| 16 | a continuing state of conflict, tension, and competition that existed after world war ii between the soviet union and its satellites and the powers of the western world under the leadership of the united states from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s | 1 set | |
| 17 | u.s. and soviet union compete for economic resources and political alliances for over 40 years | 1 set | |
| 18 | "the cold war" refers to the period following wwii until the collapse of the soviet union in the 1990s. this was a period when much of the world was divided by the communist/non-communist battle for military and political superiority. while the usa and the ussr were unquestionably the world's two superpowers, they avoided direct military conflict. instead, they sought to bring other countries into their fold. | 1 set | |
| 19 | ideological, political, and economic battle by two superpowers, the us and the ussr | 1 set | |
| 20 | continuing state of tension & hostility between u.s and ussr | 1 set | |
| 21 | the period during wwii until the collapse of the soviet union in the 1990s. this was a period when much of the world was divided by the communist/non-communist battle for military and political superiority. while the usa and the ussr were unquestionably the world's two superpowers, they avoided direct military conflict. instead they sought to bring other countries into their fold. | 1 set | |
| 22 | series of confrontations between russia and usa. nuclear arms race, espionage, proxy wars, propaganda, and competitive technological development such as the space race occured | 1 set | |
| 23 | emergence of two superpowers with competing philosophies after world war ii | 1 set | |
| 24 | a war of words and ideas | 1 set | |
| 25 | was a state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the us on one side and the soviet union on the other | 1 set | |
| 26 | refers to the period following wwii until the collapse of the soviet union in the 1990s.this was a period when much of the world was divided by the communist/non-communist battle for military and political superiority. while the usa and the ussr were unquestionably the world’s two superpowers, they avoided direct military conflict. instead, they sought to bring other countries into their fold. | 1 set | |
| 27 | a war that was never fought, it was more a war of words & ideas | 1 set | |
| 28 | a actual war never started it was only a war of words | 1 set | |
| 29 | 1945-1991 | 1 set | |
| 30 | at the end of war america, drittish, french and the soviets divied germany | 1 set | |
| 31 | the two super-powers that came out of wwii (usa and ussr) started to compete for land, economic power, political power, and military/world influencce. it came to be called the cold war and lasted from 1945-1988 and erupted into the korean war and the vietnam war | 1 set | |
| 32 | which war does this story take place? ab | 1 set | |
| 33 | la guerre froide | 1 set | |
| 34 | this time period between 1945 and 1991 in which the world politics were dominated by the struggle between the united states and the soviet union. because the "eyes of the world were watching," the civil rights movement was able to gain a momentum it had not been able to gain after world war i | 1 set | |
| 35 | a competition for power around the world. between the usa (and its allies) and the soviet union (and its allies) | 1 set | |
| 36 | state of tension and hostility among nation with out armed conflict | 1 set | |
| 37 | what inspired him to right the screen play | 1 set | |
| 38 | 1945-1990 ad | 1 set | |
| 39 | between us and soviet union. ended in 1989 | 1 set | |
| 40 | not an actual war, but a division and conflict between the democratic usa and the communist soviet union | 1 set | |