a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility. a government or state ruled by an aristocracy, elite, or privileged upper class. government by those considered to be the best or most able people in the state.
D, A struggle between the Eastern Bloc and the West that lasted 40 years.
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As the other answers states, the United States and the U.S.S.R. only came together because of the severe threat posed by a common enemy, Nazi Germany. Between 1917 and 1941 relations were tense between the U.S. and the Soviets. After World War II, relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R rapidly deteriorated.
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