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The Cold War
The Longest War. As soon as one war ended, another began: the “Cold War” between the United States and the Soviet Union. Until the collapse of the Soviet Empire symbolized by the demolishing of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the two great powers were locked in a struggle that later generations will have difficulty understanding. Often American policy has been inconsistent or lacking in direction. The disastrous Vietnam War was a result. The United States, nevertheless, has, with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, outlasted the Soviet Union. It seems to have had the power and flexibility to bounce back from mistakes. It also emerged from World War Two with the world's most powerful economy, an economy that has continued to grow into the twenty-first century.
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