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- The cold war was a deological, political,
- and economic tensions between 1945 and 1990
- between the USSR and Eastern Europe on the
- one hand and the USA and Western Europe on
- the other. The Cold War was exacerbated by
- propaganda, covert activity by intelligence
- agencies, and economic sanctions; it
- intensified at times of conflict anywhere in
- the world.
- Arms-reduction agreements between the USA
- and USSR in the late 1980s, and a diminution
- of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe,
- symbolized by the opening of the Berlin Wall
- in 1989, led to a reassessment of positions,
- and the "war" officially ended in 1990.
-
- Subject by: Julian Love
-