What was the Cold War and what events caused it? Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and its communist allies that referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other side were the United Staes and its democratic allies, usually referred to as …showed first 75 words of 629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 629 total…influence in thr Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central Amrica. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his administration adopted a policy they called linkage, tying any U.S. arms agreement to consideration of Soviet Expansion. According the historians the Cold War was never really a war, and so it never officially bega or ended. Perhaps the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 will be remembers as the symbolic end of the Cold War.