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.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

louverture's prominent role in the haitian success over colonialism and slavery had earned him the admiration of friends and detractors alike.

explanation:

toussaint louverture began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in saint-domingue; he was by then a free man and a jacobin.