The First Cold War is a demanding model for the general concept of cold war. It suggests the need for superpowers; zero-sum ideological polarisation; competing coalitions/alli-ances around the principal antagonists; a periphery of nonaligned states; proxy wars; and arms racing. More @Wikipedia
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