"nonhostile belligerency," used in print October 1945 by George Orwell; popularized in U.S. c. 1947 by U.S. statesman Bernard Baruch (1870-1965). Hence hot war (1947). More than any other ti [..]

The period of protracted conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies that lasted from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Related: Abstract Expressionism

(1947-1991) conflict between the Soviet Union (and its allies) and the United States (and its allies). The two sides never confronted each other directly.

Guerra Fría

the period in world affairs from c.1947-1990, marked by ideological, economic and political hostility and competition between the US and the Soviet Union, and drawing in other powers at various levels of involvement

Hostile relationship, reflected in arms race and competition for global influence, between Soviet bloc and U.S.-led NATO, 1945-1991. "Iron curtain" across central Europe marked key division in "bipolar" world until fall of Berlin Wall, 1989. End variously traced to internal difficulties of Soviet regime, pressure from U.S. arms [..]

  State of political and military tension in the period after WWII (1947-1991), between the Western Block (US, Europe, NATO) and the Eastern Block (Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies). (Wikipedia [..]

Conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. The conflict arose because both countries wanted to be the most powerful in the world.

A significant part of these games is about any or all in a series of conflicts commonly referred to as the Cold War.

The ideological, political, and economic conflict and rivalry between the United States and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its supporters on the other side. Competition between the two alliances, which continued from the end of World War II in 1945 to the collapses of the Soviet Union in 1991, was carried on by strategies and tacti [..]