The Cold War The Cold War, the tern Cold War is used to describe the post- World War II struggle between the United States and its allies, also The Soviet Union and its allies#. During the Cold War era which lasted from the mid 1940’s all the way through the late 1980’s , two major political beliefs were involve in the Cold War , Democracy which was the US and its allies, and communism which was the …showed first 75 words of 546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 546 total…Chinese leader Mao Zendong took over. The Soviets first tested there atomic bomb that same year#, by the development of the atomic bomb it gave the Soviets more confidence that they were at the same level of the US. They began to have a competition with the US, and they didn’t stop the developing nuclear weapons, they wanted to be the top guns and sooner or later spread their communist ways to the US.