Why is cold war called cold?

Answer 1

The "Cold War," refers to the "war" between the United States and Russia. China could also be included in the definition. The Cold War was a non-combat "war." The Cold War, as noted, existed because of differing political ideologies between the two powers. Basically, it was the Western Ideals of democracy against the Eastern communists. Political, social, economic and military spending and development "battles" were fought between the parties. There was little political discourse, economic sanctions existed to try and isolate the Soviets, social implications, especially in the early 1950s, caused the great "commie hunt" in the United States, mainly led by Senator Joesph McCarthy. The "war" was a chess match between the two powers especially in the development of perspective military and nuclear capability. Ronald Regan broke the Soviets and the Eastern Bloc by basically bankrupting their capability to maintain military and nuclear parity.

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars, was the planned weapons system the Soviets feared the most. Although SDI was a paper tiger and not a viable system, the Soviets never knew it. Communism just could not keep up with any free market capitalist system in the world at that time. The Afghan War also took its toll on Soviet coffers and its military. In 1989, a series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West BerlinThe end of institutional communism in Europe ended in 1989 as the Berlin Wall fell and the communist system disintegrated.

Answer 2

It was called the cold was as there was no use of any sort of wepan throughout the entire war