The Nazi certainly had some ideals that I'd consider outright evil, but quite frankly.. we didn't know that at the time, and many of the countries involved didn't consider much of what they did evil until they realised the scale of it. World War 2 was the same as many other wars through history, it was between a nation that wanted to take over it's neighbours, and its neighbours who didn't want to be taken over.
Depending upon how you define good and evil, I suppose you could say that WW2 was... but the allies, and I say this as an Englishman fiercely proud of my nation and where we come from.. were far from the angels and innocent parties we tried to make ourselves out to be. Our actions at the end of WW1 were one of the direct causes of Hitler coming to power.
The Cold War wasn't a war at all, as Valanthe said.. it was a nuclear penis measuring contest that wouldn't have happened if either side was even remotely sane. If anything, it was Evil vrs Different Evil.
i'm surprised you didn't bring up the holocaust, gestapos, or japanese atrocities on chinese + korean cities. (and we might of showed up late, but like in superbad, we had this other problem to deal with (fighting the japanese in the pacific) and when we did show up, we brought the keggar...then threw up on berlin and didn't get laid) thanks for your opinion though, this is really helping me arugue my way through my essay
It's extremely easy to point to the atrocities of the losers in that war. So easy in fact that we are able to often ignore the things our nation's said before..and during the war... and the things we did during it.
The allied countries were not the nicest of places to be a jew, for example, before the war.. there were plenty of people who thought just like the Nazi party, even in power. Likewise with people of different races, homosexuals, the disabled, and outspoken political activists. I believe it was my own people, the British, who invented the concentration camp during the Boer War.
And at the end of the day, whatever the arguments for it's creation and use, Nuclear weapons have caused and will cause a great deal of suffering in future.