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The Cold War was a continuing state of political and military tension from the 1940s to the early 1990s between the Western world, led by the United States and NATO allies, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellites and allies. The Cold War never saw direct military action, since both sides' nuclear weapons would have guaranteed "mutual assured destruction". Cycles of relative calm were followed by high tension and the threat of war.

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Why was the Cold War carried out over the whole world instead of between Siberia and Alaska?

The cold war was "a war by other means" between two global power blocs Your question is based on a false premise, that false premise being that the US and the USSR actually wanted to go to war with e …
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Did one or both sides of the cold war plan to strategically attack the others' food production?

There is good reason to believe that such a strategy was considered ... at least until the 1970s. The strategic use of defoliants arose before the Cold War. From the Agent Orange Wikipedia entry, th …
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Why was Spanish Fascist dictatorship left in power after World War II?

WW II was primarily a power struggle, and to a lesser degree an ideological struggle. This means that your assumption about the motivations of WW II are incorrect. If it had been an ideological stru …
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Why did navies abandon armour?

The short answer is that the speed penalty that armor inflicted was becoming too great. The USN (for example) didn't abandon armor completely: "armor" changed form. What all navies addressed was …
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