The start of everything

Cold war is the designation given to the political-ideological conflict among United States (USA), defenders of the capitalism, and the Soviet Union (USSR), defender of the socialism, understanding the period between the end of Second World War and the extinction of the Soviet Union.
It is called " cold " because there was not any physical combat, although the whole world feared the coming of a new world combat, for we be in presence of two potencies with great arsenal of nuclear weapons. North American and Soviets joined an ideological fight, politics and economic during that period. If a socialist government was implanted nalgum country of the Third World, the North American government he saw a menace there soon to its interests; if a popular movement combatted a government aligned to the USA, soon it would receive Soviet support.
• 1 to uncoil
o 1.1 the Crisis in the Postwar
 1.1.1 blockade of Berlin (Junho/1948 - Maio/1949)
o 1.2 plane Marshall and COMECON
o 1.3 Arms race
 1.3.1 NATO and Pact of Varsóvia
 1.3.2 war of Korea (Junho/1950 - Julho/1953)
 1.3.3 Space race
o 1.4 the peaceful coexistence (1953—1962)
o 1.5 crises of the Cold War (1956—1962)
 1.5.1 Hungarian revolution (1956)
 1.5.2 war of Suez (1956)
 1.5.3 crisis of the Missiles (1962)
o 1.6 the Distention (1962 - 1979)
 1.6.1 war of Vietnam (1957 - 1973)
 1.6.2 the Distention in Europe
 1.6.3 the Chinese Recognition
o 1.7 the " Second " Cold War (1979-1985)
o 1.8 the era Gorbachev - the end of the Cold War (1985-1991)
 1.8.1 Perestroika and Glasnost
 1.8.2 the desalinhamento of the oriental republics

United States of America (in English: United States of America, USES or US; frequently abbreviated in Portuguese as USA) they are a Federal Republic Presidencialista, composed by 50 States and a Distrito Federal. Most of United States is located in the central area of North America, possessing three terrestrial borders, two with Canada, and one with Mexico, and the remaining of the country makes border with the Oceano Pacífico, the Sea of Bering, the Oceano Ártico, the Golf of Mexico and the Oceano Atlântico. Of 50 American States, Alaska and Hawaii are not just contiguous with other 48 States, nor to each other. United States also possess several territories, districts and other possessions around the world, primarily in Caribbean and in the Oceano Pacífico. Each State possesses a high level of local autonomy, in agreement with the system of federalism.
United States celebrate its day of the independence on July 4, 1776, when the Thirteen British Colonies in North America adopted the Declaration of Independence, rejecting the British authority, in favor of the self-determination. This independence was recognized officially by United Kingdom in the Agreement of Paris. United States adopted its current Constitution in 1789, that estabeceu the American government's basic structure. Ever since, the nation gradually was developed, becoming a superpower after the end of Second World War, starting to exercise great economic influence, politics, scientific, technological, military and cultural in the world.
Soviet union or USSR, whose complete name Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics was (in Russian: transliterated: Soyuz Sovetskih Sotsialistitcheskih Respublik) was a country of continental proportions, covering 1/6 of the buoyant lands of the planet practically, founded on December 30, 1922 by the meeting of the countries that you/they formed the old Russian Empire, in Europe and in Asia. The number of constituent republics varied along the time, but it was of 15 during most of the existence of the country. USSR was one of the two superpowers during the Cold War. The Union was dissolved officially on December 25, 1991.
? Soviet republics
? 2 history of the Soviet Union
• 2.1 revolution of 1905
• 2.2 revolution of 1917
• 2.3 Civil war
• 2.4 New Economic Politics
• 2.5 Planned economy and Expurgos
• 2.6 great Patriotic War
• 2.7 Desestalinização
• 2.8 space race
• 2.9 stability and Stagnation
3 leaders of the Soviet Union
4 holidays
5 hymns
6 gallery of images
7 to see also