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  2. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    Cold War. 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 and lasted to 1991.

  3. 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. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published ...

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  4. Cold War: Summary, Combatants, Start & End | HISTORY

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    Learn about the Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States. Explore the causes, events, and consequences of the Cold War, from containment to nuclear warfare, from the Space Race to the Red Scare, from abroad to the end of the Cold War and its effects.

  5. Cold War facts and information - National Geographic

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    Learn about the 45-year standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that shaped the postwar world. Explore the causes, events, and consequences of the Cold War and its possible resurgence today.

  6. Cold War: Definition and Timeline | HISTORY

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    Explore the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, the anti-communist suspicions, the international incidents and the nuclear brinkmanship that shaped postwar politics. Find out how the Cold War started, how it developed, and what events and people shaped its history with stories, photos, videos and key moments.

  7. The Cold War | JFK Library

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    Learn about the Cold War, the decades-long struggle for supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies after World War II. Explore the causes, events, and consequences of the conflict that shaped the world and the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

  8. Cold War causes and impact | Britannica

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    The Cold War (the term was first used by Bernard Baruch during a congressional debate in 1947) was waged mainly on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. It was at its peak in 1948–53 with the Berlin blockade and airlift, the formation of NATO, the victory of the communists in the Chinese civil ...

  9. What was the Cold War? | Britannica

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    The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945. Orwell understood it as a nuclear stalemate between “super-states ...

  10. Timeline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).

  11. Cuban Missile Crisis - Causes, Timeline & Significance | HISTORY

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    The two superpowers plunged into one of their biggest Cold War confrontations after the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Major Richard Heyser making a high-altitude pass over Cuba on ...

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