The Cold War was a war of words, not violence, that began in 1946. This was signified by competition, tension, and conflict between the Soviet Union, and the United States. In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo, about foreign affairs of the time. In it he uttered the following quote: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent (of Europe)." …showed first 75 words of 768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 768 total…rest of Eastern Europe, surprisingly. By the end of 1989, Communism had nearly ended, or was seriously deteriorating, in what was formerly known as the Eastern Bloc Nations. On November 9, 1989, East German authorities allowed the demolition of the Berlin Wall. This, in turn, signified the end of the Cold War. Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Warsaw Pact, much like the Cold War, became nonexistent during this time. The Cold War was officially put to an end in 1991.