“COLD WAR” by YCW-CRUZ Management Brief summary of the Cold War: The Cold War , it was an open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was used by an American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch during a congressional debate in 1947. …showed first 75 words of 5618 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5618 total…Soviet Union in several countries, especially Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. In 1956, the Soviet troops quickly put down an uprising in Hungary, and in 1968 Warsaw Pact troops were sent into Czechoslovakia after that nation's government began to lift restraints on personal freedom. Soviet troops were withdrawn from Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in 1990, in accordance with Gorbachev's reform policies. The Warsaw Pact's military structure disbanded on March 31, 1991 and the political arm agreed to disband three months later.