You are very much mistaken.
A World War implies that there are either:
a) Many different countries all over the World at war with each other (WWII)
OR
b) Several countries in close proximity at war, but fighting all over the World (WWI)
You can't count the Cold War as a World War, because all the 'campaigns' were regarded as seperate conflicts; it would only have been a world war if all of the Warsaw pact and Communist countries went to war with NATO.
Also, it wasn't just the Warsaw pact and NATO at war in that period; There was also the Falklands war, the Russian-Afghan war; NATO gave no direct assistance. If you count providing supplies as a direct act of war, then America was on both sides in WWI until 1917.
Also, if anyone won the Cold War, it was the Russians who got rich selling Soviet military tech on the blackmarket/EBay.
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