Conflict Name: Cold War.
Conflict Start: 1946 (U.S. Policy of Soviet Containment)
Conflict End: 1991 (The Collapse of the USSR)
Conflict Belligerents: United States (NATO) and the Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact)
Conflict Winner: United States.
It’s estimated that more than 11 million people were killed throughout all the various proxy wars fought by the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
The term Cold War was coined by English writer George Orwell in his essay “You and the Atomic Bomb”, which he published on October 19th, 1945.
The deadliest proxy war during the Cold War was the Vietnam War, over 3.5 million people were killed.
The nuclear arms race during the Cold War saw a peak in nuclear weapon stockpiles in 1985, where both countries combined had over 50,000 nuclear weapons.
The internet was born out of the Cold War. The United States government funded a project called ARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which was to develop a method for military computers to share information with one another very quickly.

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