COLD WAR (1 gen 1945 anni – 1 gen 1991 anni)

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an ideological struggle
espionage (KGB v CIA), arms race, ideological competition for hearts and minds of Third World peoples
proxy wars
bipolarization of Europe (NATO v. Warsaw Pact)
USSR and Eastern Bloc nations (Iron Curtain) goals: spread world-wide communism
US and western democracies goal: "containment" of communism and the eventual collapse of the Communist world (George Kennan)

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