According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy," One apt definition of war is this: war is an actual, intentional and widespread-armed conflict between political communities." (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/). This definition did not seem fit for the conflict between capitalism (United States of America), communism (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and their followers. The struggle was later dubbed the Cold War, referring to its lack of physical conflict. Though, if every aspect of …showed first 75 words of 2658 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2658 total…was a different type of war, but not to the extreme of being classified as cold. A more fitting summarization of the Cold War might be; a forty-year-old ideological difference and political distrust led to the exponential escalation of many world affairs. How would you classify this? Certainly cold would not serve justice. A more accurate name would have been the Ideological War, referring to its roots of conflict buried in differences in government ideas.