The major cause for the Cold War were Ideological difference between the two super blocs viz. USA - supporting capitalism and USSR supporting Communism
Your question is incomplete -- who or what is "they"
you got a cold? fight the war yerself!
The fifties had more conflicts regarding the Cold War in Europe.
1945
Korean War
Your question is incomplete -- who or what is "they"
The end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War in 1990.
The short answer is: the cold war was the tension that arose between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II. Many events during and after the war contributed to it.
The Atomic Bomb caused the cold war.
The Cold War. Vietnam was a "hot" battle of the cold war.
Cold war.
Cold War.
The A-Bomb.
Cold war was a war of threats, politics between democratic west and communist east. It was caused by the end of WWII with the emergence of two super powers America and the USSR, and their opposing ideologies. It was called a cold war because there were no occasions of direct armed conflict between the super powers.
Communism verses the free world.
self insecure feeling
The cold war was not a war; it was a military stand-off (no war). Americans died to operational causes (accidents).