The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. The historiography of the conflict began between 1946 and 1947. The Cold War began to de-escalate after the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term “cold” is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, but they