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The Cold War was a tense ideological and geopolitical struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991, marked by proxy wars, an arms race, and global influence. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
The Holocaust was the Nazi regime’s systematic extermination of six million Jews and millions of other victims, marking one of history’s darkest chapters. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
The plan was designed largely by the United States after World War II, by which U.S. aid was focused on the rebuilding of Germany that had been its enemy in the war just concluded.