Which is the best description of the Cold War? the period of global tensions between the United States and western Europe
the years when the United States and Nazi Germany were at war
the period of global tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union
the years when Leonid Brezhnev led the United States

 The Cold War was the period of global tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Explanation: This began after World War II when the Soviet Union (Russia an other now-independent republics Georgia, Ukraine, etc) instaled communist governments in the countries of eastern Europe that the USSR occupied after the war. Tensions rose throughout the 1950's and were not completely over until the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991.

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the answer is the government.