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1 day 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.
5 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
5 days ago · At the Malta Summit of December 1989, both the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union declared the Cold War over, and the Soviet forces retreated from Afghanistan. [113] In 1991, the two countries were partners in the Gulf War against Iraq, a longtime Soviet ally.
3 days ago · The main trend regarding the history of U.S. foreign policy since the American Revolution is the shift from non-interventionism before and after World War I, to its growth as a world power and global hegemon during World War II and throughout the Cold War in the 20th century.
5 days ago · Reviews. In the late 1970s, new generations of nuclear missile delivery systems were proposed for deployment across Eastern and Western Europe. The ensuing controversy over their deployment grew into a key phase in the later years of the Cold War.
5 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?
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1 day 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.
