It wasn't one, but several. After WW2 Germany was divided between the western countries (NATO) and the Soviet Union. This created a philosophy of containment by western powers to control communism in Europe and Asia. This containment became policy by a series of US presidents and western powers. Thus, the Cold War was created. A great deal centered around the Berlin Wall and Soviet controlled satellite states.
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The United States and the former U.S.S.R. were the two participants in the Cold War. It was essentially an arms and technology race to see which country was greater.
Ideological differences did not cause the cold war. Nuclear Weapons caused the cold war.
The United States and the Soviet Union were the two countries on opposite sides during the Cold War. The Cold War ended in 1991.
Communism verses the free world.
The cold war was about how two countries fought each other.
China is a communist country. The cold war was between the western countries and the communist countries. China supported the communist countries.