Was Cold War a ‘War’?

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Was Cold War a ‘War’? by Vethanee Techasooksant

Cold War is an academic warfare that driven by a psychological and economic contention between The United States of American and USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) or Russia that there relationship had immediately reversed during 1940s-1990s. It is a war that carries on without any intensely move or fighting in the battlefield. The question is asking for is it was really a ‘War’ or it was a war just by the name that has given. This report is going to verify that Cold War is a war by the following evidences.
The Cold War is the name of a term given to the relationship that developed between the USA and the USSR after World War Two (History learning site, What is Cold War, para.1). It’s a psychological and economic raise warfare between the most powerful states in Europe without any combating and weapons are in used. Despite they did ‘fight’ for prove that their beliefs and ideologies using client states that fought for their beliefs on their behalf; USA is capitalism or democracy and USSR is hold on communism (para.11). The Cold War was a state of economic, political and military tension between the one who win the World War II and its allies. Honestly, USA and USSR are afraid that if they’re directly fighting each other, they both will be exhausted (Korean War Commemoration, What was the Cold War, para.3). Therefor, they do use the client states to create a small fight; however that has instigated many of proxy war and many changes in world map. This war was ended in 1991 with the annulment of the USSR.
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...r of this report is the definition of a war. Cold War is definitely called just as a term or name that been given to the changes in relationship between USA and USSR. In other words, it was known as a ‘war’ just because of their name. Again, USA and USSR doesn’t fight by using any weapons or any military clash during a Cold War, which this makes it isn’t a war based on the definition above. There were no any death or blood dropped to the floor during the Cold War, just a loose of national finance in each side. It’s true that Cold War is a contention between the two hostile nation-states stirs up by national conflicts and also using an area of the globe that is one of the conditions to make it called as a war. However, those conditions they got aren’t hold all the keys. Cold War need to be a battlefield war and weapons should be included, so they can become a ‘War’.

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