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The Cold War can be said in two words.

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During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union did not really exchange fire, when the United States and the Soviet Union were both "superpowers" in the world, and the two countries and their allies struggled for decades for world hegemony.

During this period, although the differences and conflicts were serious, both sides tried their best to avoid the outbreak of a large-scale war (World War III) on a worldwide scale, and its confrontation was usually carried out through "cold" methods such as local wars, scientific and technological and arms races, space races, and diplomatic competitions, that is, "mutual containment and no use of force", so it was called "cold war".

Yes! During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union did not really exchange fire, mainly in the military aspect of the competition....Just like two people, when they are not satisfied with each other, the chance of turning against each other is very small, but they are secretly trying to surpass each other in their hearts....The Cold War exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union were only a little less, and they were not completely cut off....Khrushchev's visit to the United States is a good example....

(1) Yalta system: At the end of World War II, Yalta and other international conferences established a new system of international relations dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union, that is, the Yalta system, which outlined the basic outline of the bipolar pattern of the post-war world.

2) Truman Doctrine: In March 1947, Truman proposed to "contain communism" as the guiding ideology of the country's political ideology and foreign policy. These policies and programs came to be known as the "Truman Doctrine."

The Truman Doctrine marked the full-scale beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

3) Marshall Plan: In June 1947, U.S. Secretary of State Marshall proposed the "European Recovery Plan", also known as the Marshall Plan. The aim was to pave the way for American control of Western Europe by economic means.

4) The establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

NATO: In the spring of 1949, 12 countries, including the United States, Britain, and France, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in opposition to the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. In the summer of the same year, the treaty entered into force and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established, abbreviated as NATO.

The Warsaw Pact: To stabilize Eastern Europe and guarantee the interests and security of the Soviet Union. In 1955, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, referred to as the Warsaw Pact, in Warsaw.

In June of the same year, the treaty entered into force, formally establishing the Warsaw Pact Organization, or Warsaw Pact for short. It marked the formation of a confrontation between the two major military-political blocs headed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

During World War II, the two major military blocs fought against each other, the anti-fascist alliance with the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Britain as the main force, and finally defeated Germany, Japan and other fascist countries, in Europe the Soviet Red Army and the United States and Britain divided Germany, Germany was divided into two, namely the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR (also called East Germany and West Germany), the Berlin Wall was established between East Germany and West Germany, the Berlin Wall was east of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, and the west was the United States and Britain's sphere of influence, and in the Asia-Pacific region, in 1945, the Soviet Union sent troops to Northeast China to fight a decisive battle with Japan, At this time, the United States won the Pacific War, Japan surrendered, and the United States and the Soviet Union took the 38th parallel of Korea as the military dividing point, with socialism in the north and capitalism in the south.

In 1945, the heads of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin held a meeting in Yalta, the Crimean Peninsula of the Soviet Union (also known as the Crimea Conference). The Yalta Conference undoubtedly laid the foundation for the post-war world to be dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. Therefore, it was later commonly referred to as the Yalta pattern or the Yalta system.

The Yalta Conference defined the new order of the world, defined the respective spheres of influence. In this way, the bipolar pattern represented by the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the previous European powers.

After that, the United States and the Soviet Union competed with each other and were hostile at every turn, a situation that remained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the bipolar pattern.