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19 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 to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · What was the Cold War? How did the Cold War end? Why was the Cuban missile crisis such an important event in the Cold War? What was Harry S. Truman's reaction to communist North Korea's attempt to seize noncommunist South Korea in 1950? Should the United States maintain the embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba?
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
19 hours ago · As the last acts of the Cold War were playing out, several Warsaw Pact states (Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary) participated in the US-led coalition effort to liberate Kuwait in the Gulf War. On 25 February 1991, the Warsaw Pact was declared disbanded at a meeting of defence and foreign ministers from remaining Pact countries meeting in ...
1 day ago · Советско–китайский раскол. Romanization. Sovetsko–kitayskiy raskol. The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual deterioration of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War.
2 days ago · Russia - Khrushchev, Soviet Union, Cold War: After Stalin’s death in 1953, a power struggle for leadership ensued, which was won by Nikita Khrushchev. His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls ...
3 days ago · “This book reflects the best of the scholarship by two serious Chinese scholars of the Cold War international history. Based on newly available archives and historical material in Beijing and Moscow, this book has detailed China’s alliance relationships during the heydays of the Cold War.
