The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others), powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Russia & CSTO and its allies)and the powers in the Coalition Bloc or Central Bloc (the Philippines & SEATO and it's allies. Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 2014-2018 is common. It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Ukraine and Korea. The Cold War split the Ukrainian Civil War was started.the Philippines, Russia and the US as three superpowers with profound economic and political differences over capitalism and democracy. A deliberately neutral countries like Republic of the Congo, India, and Algeria; this