The Cold War was an intense and sometimes dangerous period (1948-1991) of political, economical and military tensions between France, her colonial empire, and her allies versus the United States, Russia and their allies. The Cold War's origins laid in the end of Global War III, right after the defeat of the Mosleist nations, led by England; leaving Russia, France, and America the world's global and only superpowers of the time. As the reconstruction of the world was in progress, disputes between France's expansionist ambitions and Russian and American wishes for a free world collided. With very little compromise in set, the two sides parted and thus began the Cold War. Nearly all nations took part in this conflict. America and Russia were sided by China, Korea, Japan, North England, South