Cold War Years
The term cold war had existed since the 1930s when it was used to describe increasingly fraught relationships between european countries.
Cold war years. The cold war had solidified by 194748 when us. The struggle between superpowers. 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 between communist bloc nations and western allies defined postwar politics.
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. The cold war emerged in europe a few years after the successful usussruk coalition won world war ii in europe and extended to 198991. The cold war reached its peak in 194853. The cold war 19471953 is the period within the cold war from the truman doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the korean war in 1953.
Learn about the berlin wall the cuban missle crisis nato the space race and more. During the 45 years of the cold war many in the west doubted as alexis de tocquevil le had doubted a century and a half earlier that democracies could regulate the details of an important undertaking persevere in a fixed design and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles but as things turned out the vigor and. Prior to this the ussr had been strictly prohibiting liberal reform and maintained an inefficient.