How successful were the USA and USSR in showing their dominance over the other?

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How successful were the USA and USSR in showing their dominance over the other?

During the cold war 1945-1991, the USA and USSR tried to show their dominance over in a range of different ways. However, the question suggests that they may not have always been successful in achieving this aim. The Term ‘cold war’ was first used by an American banker in 1947 to describe the aggression that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union. By ‘cold’, it meant that the two opposing countries were doing all they could to harm and destroy each other without actually using their armed forces creating a ‘hot’ war. Causing the tension between the opposing sides was a policy that the US was using, to prevent the spread of Communism abroad, called Containment. The policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communism in places like Eastern Europe, China, Korea and Vietnam.

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The two sides decided to use other countries to fight for them, for example: they fought each other’s allies. The US fought against North Vietnam, a pro-soviet country in the Vietnam War. They helped their allies to fight each other. For example, the USA backed Israel and the Soviet Union backed Egypt in the wars in the Middle East. They gave help to opposing sides in civil wars.. The Americans used armed force to get rid of pro-soviet governments in countries close to the US, such as Cuba. The Soviet Union used armed force to stop rebellions against pro-soviet governments ...

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