| Cold War | |
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| 12 March 1948 – 7 June 1962 (14 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) Part of the post-World War II era | |
| Cold War map dies irae.png Washington Accords and Axis states during the Cold War era | |
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the German Reich and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Center Bloc, that started in 1948, a year after the end of World War II, and lasted until the beginning of World War III in 1962.