Publisher's Synopsis
From the conclusion of World War II to the end of the 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a Cold War. They never came to blows over five decades. Rather, these two world superpowers battled in other arenas that spanned virtually the entire globe. Both interfered in the affairs of other countries to win allies for their opposing ideologies. In the process, governments were destabilized, ideas silenced, revolutions broke out, and culture was controlled. This overview of the Cold War provides the story of how these two countries came to oppose one another.
