Question

did the cold war end ww2

Answer 1

The Cold War did not end World War II; rather, it was a geopolitical tension that emerged after World War II between the two superpowers that had allied against the Axis powers—namely, the United States (and its Western allies) and the Soviet Union (with its Eastern bloc allies). The Cold War was characterized by political, military, economic, and ideological competition, but it did not generally involve direct military conflict between the two superpowers.

World War II officially ended with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, in the European theatre, and with the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan.

The Cold War began in the aftermath of World War II, as the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers with competing ideologies—democracy and capitalism versus communism. They had been wartime allies against Nazi Germany, but once the common enemy was defeated, their relationship quickly deteriorated due to their conflicting views on government, economics, and the postwar reconstruction of Europe and other parts of the world.

The Cold War lasted for several decades, encompassing events such as the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet-Afghan War, among others. It eventually came to an end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the dissolution of the Eastern bloc, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.