The "Cold War" is the term coined by columnist Walter Lipman to
             describe the competition just short of military conflict between Soviet
             Russia and the United States. It's roots go as far back as 1890 when the
             then allies became rivals over the development of Manchuria. The Cold
             War officially ended in 1989 when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
             pulled Soviet forces from Afghanistan and announced that "the postwar
             period is over." And the George Bush administration agreed that the
             world had "clearly outgrown the post-1945 power clash".
             There were many events that went on during the time of the Cold
             War, I will just name a few and describe them a little.
             There were no diplomatic relations between Soviet Russia and the
             U.S. between 1917 and 1939. This is because the USSR feared the U.S. as
             the most powerful capitalist nation we would overthrow their communist
             nation. Of course we had reason to fear. The communists had gained
             more power, they had confiscated U.S. property, and the fact that their
             revolution could spread to Europe, Asia, and maybe even the Western
             Hemisphere. We were not allies again until we were both attacked by the
             Axis but that did not last very long and even then we did not trust each
             Stalin lost 20 million to death during that war and he was
             determined to use his Soviet Red Army to control Poland, dominate the
             Balkans, and destroy Germany's ability to wage war. The US was led by
             President Harry S. Truman after 1945. He was determined to rebuild
             capitalist Europe. He enforced this by monopolizing the atomic bomb.
             Regardless of this Stalin had taken control of Eastern Europe from 1945
             to 1947. In 1945 The Cold War had reached Europe and quickly spread.
             In March of 1947 Truman rallied Americans by warning them in
             his Truman Doctrine that they would have to spend $400 million to
             protect people against totalitarian regimes.
             In 1948 Stalin blocked we...