Gorbachev
Because the world came extremely close to nuclear war, during the Cuban missile crisis, it made people very nervous, and prolonged the distrust and hostility between the US and the USSR, which really ended only in 1989, with the collapse of the USSR.
The US and the former USSR
No. There was no real combat in the Cold "War". It was mainly a battle of politics, which resulted in decades of distrust between the United States and the USSR. However, the Cold War caused other conflicts, such as the Korean war. The United States and the USSR used Korea as a way of indirectly fighting each other, and it was still primarily a battle of political issues
10.7 Million USSR Soldiers were killed during World War 2. All of them from the Soviet Union.
The cold war was a MILITARY stand-off between the US and USSR.
The USSR was expected to invade Germany at any time during the Cold War, which took place between 1945 and 1990 - although as it turns out, they never did.
Germany was sandwiched between the USSR and the western allies.
The USSR supported Russia during the Cold Was.
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were initially part of the Allied Powers, fighting against the Axis Powers, which included Germany, Italy, and Japan. Despite their collaboration to defeat a common enemy, the two nations had fundamentally different ideologies—capitalism and democracy in the U.S. versus communism in the USSR. After the war, tensions grew between them, leading to the Cold War, as they vied for global influence and power. Their wartime partnership was marked by cooperation in military strategy, but underlying distrust foreshadowed future conflicts.
The main Allies were USA, British Empire, USSR and China.
The race to build more atomic bombs between the US and the USSR during the Cold War was called the Arms Race. It was a period of intense competition and escalation of nuclear weapons development between the two superpowers.
The US did NOT allow the communists (USSR) to expand during the cold war.