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3 days ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
- Toward a New World Order
The 1970s saw an easing of Cold War tensions as evinced in...
- Berlin Crisis of 1961
The free city of West Berlin, surrounded by the communist...
- Berlin Blockade
Berlin blockade, international crisis that arose from an...
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay of Pigs invasion, abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahia...
- Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, treaty signed in Moscow on August...
- Students
The Long Telegram was a key document in the development of...
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
Other articles where Warsaw Treaty Organization is...
- Toward a New World Order
2 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
2 days ago · The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. When the Cold War ended, NATO was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization.
Jun 7, 2024 · The Cold War didn’t end history, but it did remove whatever benefits might have remained in fighting another world war. What Radchenko shows is that the demands of revolution, security, and legitimacy were equally compelling for Soviet leaders during the Cold War.
Jun 4, 2024 · The most pressing issue along the two geographical fault lines in the coming years is keeping the new Cold War “cold” and preventing it from becoming a full-blown global hot war.
3 days ago · During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
6 days ago · In this book-length work he is able to expand upon those detailed case studies but also to look beyond them and draw much wider conclusions about the nature of the Cold War in the so-called 'Third World'.
