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The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism; it centered around two opposing global superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, and their military alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. Between 1985 and 1991 Cold War rivalries first eased and then ended.

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