Why was the Cold War called 'cold'?

The superpowers never fought each other directly, competing through ideology, alliances, and proxy wars

What was the ideological clash at the root of the Cold War?

American capitalism and democracy versus Soviet communism

The division of Europe into a communist East and a capitalist West

Stopping the spread of communism

Proxy wars in which the superpowers backed opposing sides

It was the closest the world came to nuclear war and pushed the superpowers to manage the arms race

Through nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience

It was partitioned into a mainly Hindu India and a mainly Muslim Pakistan, with violence and mass migration

The Communists under Mao Zedong won and founded the People's Republic of China

Ethnic conflict caused by arbitrary borders that ignored existing peoples

A system of enforced racial segregation and white-minority rule in South Africa

Glasnost (openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring)

The end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe

The United States emerged as the world's sole superpower in a globalizing world

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Why was the Cold War called 'cold'?
What was the ideological clash at the root of the Cold War?
What did Winston Churchill's phrase 'Iron Curtain' describe?
What was the United States policy of containment?
The Korean and Vietnam Wars are best described as:
Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) significant?
How did Gandhi lead India's independence movement?
What happened when British India became independent in 1947?
What was the outcome of the Chinese Revolution of 1949?
What challenge did many newly independent African nations face because of colonial rule?
What was apartheid?
What did the creation of Israel in 1948 lead to?
What were Gorbachev's reforms?
What did the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolize?
What was the result of the end of the Cold War for global power?