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In 2-3 sentences, explain what the Cold War was.

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The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II.

Step-by-step explanation:

It was understood as a nuclear stalemate between “super-states”: each possessed weapons of mass destruction and was capable of annihilating the other.

The cause of it was tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.

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