The Cold War can be described as a nuclear stand-off between the two huge superpowers of the time period, the Soviet Union and the United States, the rest of the world didn’t want to start a fight with these guys. Both superpowers had huge amounts of weapons and nuclear weapon that weren’t really used, only to show that they have power which intimidated some smaller countries. All over Africa, Latin America, and Asia, terrorist groups and some anti-US countries joined the Soviet Union and some of their allies that are close joined too, like Czechoslovakia. While these countries tried to take over countries that supported the US, the US supported countries that were against communism, places like Albania and Nicaragua. The countries that were
