Why is the Cold War called the `Cold` War

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The Cold War

The term Cold War ' originates from common diplomatic terminology which defines three types of war . Those are (1 ) Hot War , or actual military activities (2 ) Warm War , or the period of negotiations accompanied by initiation of actual attacks , and (3 ) Cold War , known as the relationships between the United States and the USSR during the second half of the twentieth century , which can be characterized as geopolitical , economic and ideological confrontation that , however , has

br never resulted in any sort of direct military conflict

In my opinion , the term Cold War is quite accurate of this multifaceted historical confrontation . First of all , the relationships between these two nations can be called a war , because the competition for taking leading positions as the world 's dominant and the most developed power was really very fierce . Both countries were trying to do impossible things in to enhance own ranges of influence and win the competition in a great variety of directions , starting from ideology or economic indexes and ending with records in sports

However , this clash of interests of the two superpowers must be called the Cold ' War because , despite certain indirect involvement of military factor in this conflict , actual military activities were not initiated . Both the US and the USSR participated in massive arms and nuclear arms race , besides , the countries supported different sides in a number of military campaigns (Afghan War , Vietnam War , etc . But even during the hardest direct conflicts , like the Caribbean Crisis in 1962 great mutual efforts were made in not to start the third world war , which would obviously result in a huge global catastrophe

Works Cited

Trueman , Chris "The Cold War " History Learning Site . 2006 . 5 Mar . 2008

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