What was the Cold War? What was the United States’ goal during the Cold War?

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Easter Bloc and the Western Bloc, after the World War ll. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 Truman Doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Explanation:

The total value of new goods and services produced within a country's borders.