Today, we tell about the period known as the Cold War.
The Cold War began after World War Two. The main enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Cold War got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly. In a "hot war," nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, both sides fought each other indirectly. They supported opposing sides in conflicts in different parts of the world. They also used words as weapons. They threatened and denounced each other. Or they tried to make each other look foolish.
As it now operates: Each State is allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each State's population as determined in the Census).
The Glomar Challenger was a drilling ship built in 1968 to gather samples from the ocean floor. The study found that the more distant away from a ridge the samples were obtained, the older the rocks were. Therefore, the youngest rocks were always in the closer to the ridges. This was proof of the sea-floor spreading that had previously taken place.
