cold war
noun
the cold war
- a state of political hostility existing between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers after the Second World War, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare. It ended in 1990.冷战（第二次世界大战后苏联集团国家和西方强国之间的政治敌对状态, 以威胁、措词激烈的宣传、颠覆活动及其他非公开战争手段为其特征, 此冷战于1990年结束）。