Is a term called alleged situation that prevailed between the Soviet Union and the United States in the middle of the period until the early nineties Alerbieinaat
The term was used to describe the political turmoil after the Second World War between the Soviet Union and the United States presidential adviser Bernard Baruch, U.S.. On April 16, 1947 when he delivered a speech at Baruch South Carolina in which he said "Let's not kid ourselves we are today in the Cold War," and gave the press and Walter Lippmann great popularity of the term when he published his book entitled Cold War in 1947.

During this period, the rivalry emerged between the two great nations through military alliances, propaganda and weapons development and industrial progress and development of technology and the space race. The two forces clashed in spending heavily on defense and military arsenals of nuclear wars and indirectly - by using a broker -.

In the absence of a declared war between the United States and the Soviet Union has powers to participate in the construction of military and political struggles for support. Although the United States and the Soviet Union were allies against the Axis powers but the two disagreed on how to manage post-war reconstruction and the world. During the years following the war, the Cold War spread outside Europe to anywhere in the world. Where the United States sought to besieged policies and eradication of communism and the mobilization of allies, especially in Western Europe and the Middle East. During this time, support for the Soviet Union communist movements around the world, especially in Eastern Europe and Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Accompanied the Cold War a number of international crises such as the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948-1949 and the 1950-1953 Korean War and the Berlin crisis in 1961 and the Vietnam War 1959-1975 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, especially the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, then he felt the world on the edge of the drift to war Third World. Another crisis occurred during the training of NATO forces, 1983. The cold war also saw periods of calm that Anda was seeking to calm the two. As to avoid direct military confrontations as they occur will lead to the destruction was inevitable for both teams because of nuclear weapons.

Approached the end of the Cold War in the late eighties and early nineties. Ronad the arrival of U.S. President Ronald Reagan to power the United States doubled its political and military pressure and economic on the Soviet Union. In the second half of the eighties, the new commander of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev initiatives Berestoretta - economic reforms - and Jlasnot - an initiative to pursue policies more transparent and explicitly -. Then the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 leaving the United States the only superpower in a unipolar world.