He was Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt, who had been the US's president since 1932, and who tragically died in 1945. And Harry Truman is the President of the United States, starting in 1945. Exactly! - Okay, so tell me about these two combatants. And if necessary, tying up his boxing gloves, maybe giving him a new pair of shoes. So you've got the capitalistįighter in one corner and he's sweaty and he's beaten, but the US is behind him with a towel and one of those water buckets, splashing water in his face, like 'Get in this fight! Get in there!' - Right. So now if there are two different fighters in the ring, the US is given the capitalist fighter. Yeah, but they're not just betting, they're also putting money and arms where their mouth is. So the US and the USSR aren't fighting directly but they're kind of betting on boxing matches, betting on different fighters in the same boxing match. Then definitely the case in the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

So this is the case in the Korean War in the 1950s, and And these are wars that are taking place in other nations, developing nations of the world where the US is supporting one side, generally the pro-capitalist side, and the Soviet Union is supporting the other side, a communist side.

So the Cold War is kind of fought through proxy wars. So never in theĬourse of the Cold War did the US ever meet the ground troops with the USSR. is a war where the two major combatants never actually fire bullets at each other or drop bombs on each other. I'm excited to learn about this thing we call 'the Cold War.' What is a 'cold war' and what makes it different than a 'hot war'? - So, a cold war, and in this case it's really, it might be a term that we could debate.

Why was iy called the cold war