The Cold War was a conflict involving half the world, and lasting from 1947 until 1985. It was a confrontation of East vs. West which was very close to becoming an outright war. After World War II the two main governmental systems each wanted to rule and dominate; the Capitalist/Imperialist and the Communist/Socialist. Both were occupying different sides of Germany (America and Britain on the west side, and Russia on the east side).Both wanted …showed first 75 words of 1537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1537 total…We Will Soon Miss The Cold War by John J. Mearsheimer http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/mearsh.htm Wikipedia: Cold War: (1947-1953) and its Origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1947-1953)_and_its_origins Woodrow Wilson Internation Center for Scholars: Cold War International History Project http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home World Powers n the Twentieth Century, BBC and Heinemann Educational Book; London 1978 Harriet Ward