Matt Flight History G Block 5.21.00 The Cold War The Cold War was a scary time for the world. There was always a threat of nuclear war. The Cold War took place from 1945 to 1991. It started immediately after World War II ended. The Cold War was all about the U.S. competing with the Soviet Union over which form of government was better; the U.S.’s Democracy or the U.S.S.R.’s totalitarian …showed first 75 words of 1080 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…end to the Cold War. These 44 years of the Cold War could have easily been avoided. Communism did not turn out to be the big threat that we had made it out to be. The Soviet Union was not nearly as powerful as we had feared. Although we avoided nuclear war, we could have avoided the Cold War all together with a little bit of communication. In the future we should remember not to over-react.