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20 hours 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. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
- Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the...
- Toward a New World Order
The 1970s saw an easing of Cold War tensions as evinced in...
- Berlin Crisis of 1961
As the new administration of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy took...
- Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict (1950–53) between North Korea,...
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Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed...
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The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in...
- Red Army
In May 1937 a drastic purge, affecting all potential...
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12 hours 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 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
5 days ago · When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to Washington at the end of 1943, he could barely work. The strain of two years of continuous war leadership had been too much for a man who ...
Aug 26, 2024 · Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly known as Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. It was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.
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Aug 11, 2024 · The Cuban missile crisis was the most significant event that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. There were, however, many more incidents during the Cold War that, within the logic of mutual assured destruction, should have resulted in nuclear attacks.
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Aug 14, 2024 · Trust, but Verify examines how the “emotional” side of the Cold War conflict—trust and mistrust—affected the dynamics of the relationships between the superpowers, within the two ideological blocs, and inside individual countries on the margins of the East-West confrontation.
Aug 14, 2024 · Divided Together studies US and Soviet policy toward the United Nations during the first two decades of the Cold War. It sheds new light on a series of key episodes, beginning with the prehistory of the UN, an institution that aimed to keep the Cold War cold.
