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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.
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- 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...
- Red Army
In May 1937 a drastic purge, affecting all potential...
- Vietnam War
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.
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4 days ago · Throughout its existence, the Warsaw Pact served as a tool for the Soviet Union to maintain its grip on Eastern Europe and to quash any challenges to its authority. This role was most starkly demonstrated in the alliance‘s military interventions in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. In November 1956, a popular uprising in Hungary ...
3 days ago · As a historian, you have focused for many years on China’s diplomacy during the Cold War, and have an exhaustive understanding of past and present China-Russia relations, as well as former China ...
2 days ago · In the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War. Under the Truman administration , the U.S. government feared that communism would be spread, sometimes with the assistance of the Soviet Union's own involvement in regime change ...
4 days ago · India and the Cold War begins by chronicling the first decade of Indian independence, which also coincided with first decade of the Cold War. In these opening chapters, readers mostly learn how the new Indian state engaged with the world’s two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.
5 days ago · While one must recognise the challenges of finding documents that capture the perspectives of those marginalised by the Cold War conflict, it is precisely these traditionally silenced voices that a global approach to Cold War history must incorporate.
