Cold War Era
Brewer said ivester was wanting to clear out the building but knew the significance of the items being stored.
Cold war era. Some of the most prominent western broadcasters were the voice of america the bbc world service and the radio free europeradio liberty. Inside were dozens of cold war era supplies that had been in storage since after the fall of the soviet union and the cold wars end in the early 1990s. 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 peoples republic of china. The cold war rivalry between the united states and the soviet union lasted for decades and resulted in anti communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the.
Aid provided under the marshall plan to western europe had brought those countries under american influence and the soviets had installed openly communist regimes in eastern europe. The cold war had solidified by 194748 when us. The cold war led to increased international broadcasting and jamming as communist and non communist states attempted to influence each others domestic population. The postwar segment of this exhibit features significant cold war era documents such as the speech cards that prompted president john f.
Many american officials feared this. The term cold war itself popularized in a 1946 speech by prime minister winston churchill of britain describes the ideological struggle between democracy and communism that began shortly after the end of world war ii and lasted until 1991. Thats when he contacted brewer. In june 1950 the first military action of the cold war began when the soviet backed north korean peoples army invaded its pro western neighbor to the south.
Kennedy when he made his remarks in berlin on june 26 1963. United states history from 1945 1990 this article about the cold war era in united states history is presented in a unique way by linking the most famous events in the cold war era of 1945 1990 with the presidents who were in power during the time when these important events in american history occurred. The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war iihistorians do not fully agree on the dates but the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet unionthe term cold is used because there was no large.