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Article: History according to the new left.(Cold War, 1945-1991)
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- Arena Magazine
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- April 1, 2006
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In the late 1990s, the United States Congress passed legislation that directed the Department of Defense to design and distribute a Cold War certificate of recognition to the estimated twenty-seven million American veterans and countless civilians in the Department of State, CIA and other relevant agencies who served their country in the Cold War struggle.
It established the dates of the Cold War--which was defined as 'a global competition between two ideologies: the Free World led by the United States, and the Communist World led by the Soviet Union'--as between 2 September 1945 (the last day of World War II) and 26 December 1991 (the dissolution of the Soviet ...