The Cold War
Subtitle: 1945-1991 (Historical Association Studies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780631191384
First sentence: Despite their enormous geographical size, large populations and natural resources, the United States of America (USA, US or United States) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union) assumed a peripheral role in international affairs in the period between the two world wars, from 1919 to 1939.