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Cold War
The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc , dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc , dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact .
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