The Cold War (c. 1945-1990) was the high tension that developed after World War II between groups of nations practicing different ideologies and political systems. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and its allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other side were the United States and its allies, usually referred to as the Western bloc. The struggle was called the Cold War because it did not actually lead to fighting, or "hot" war, on a wide scale. The term was first used by the American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch during a congressional debate in 1947.
World War II brought death and destruction in an enormous scale and it ended with the use of a powerful new weapon of mass destruction, the atomic bomb. We can say that consequences of the second world war determined the cold war. As it marked the end of the European Age, USA and Soviet Union became two superpowers and world entered into a nuclear age. …
