The Cold War!
The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension existed between the United States and the Soviet Union and the countries
respective allies from 1945 to 1989. Throughout this time, the conflict was expressed through military tension, weapons development, invasions, propaganda, and developing technology. The conflict included costly defense spending, a massive conventional nuclear arms race, and many proxy wars.The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was a half century of military build-up, political maneuvering for international support, and military assistance for allies andnations that began in the late 1940s, continued into the early 1990s. Both sides of the conflict wanted to avoid direct military action because of the threat of mutual nuclear destruction. But the period was punctuated by explosive situations that threatened to bring open war, including the Berlin Airlift, theKorean Conflict the Cuban Missile Crisisthe Vietnam War and the Afghan Invasion. In December 1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George Bush officially ended the Cold War at a summit in Malta, but tensions between the two superpowers
lingered for years.