Cold War

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geopolitical conflict historical period ideological conflict

The Cold War was a prolonged period of geopolitical tension and ideological rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, spanning roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

Aliases (21)

Cold War era ×39
Cold War period ×3
Cold War era Soviet Union ×2
Cold War nuclear arms race ×2
Cold War politics ×2
NATO–Warsaw Pact confrontation ×2
late Cold War ×2
Cold War (late period space operations) ×1
Cold War United States ×1
Cold War context ×1
Cold War diplomacy ×1
Cold War divide between Eastern Bloc and Western Europe ×1
Cold War era United States ×1
Cold War frontier ×1
Cold War geopolitical context ×1
Cold War in Europe ×1
Cold War period (for its main notability) ×1
Emergence of Cold War in Europe ×1
NATO vs Warsaw Pact ×1
U.S.–Soviet Cold War rivalry ×1
early Cold War ×1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geopolitical conflict → historical period → ideological conflict →
characterizedBy	espionage → mutually assured destruction → nuclear arms race → political propaganda → proxy wars → space race →
endTime	1991 →
followed	World War II →
followedBy	post–Cold War era →
hasCause	ideological rivalry between capitalism and communism → mutual distrust between United States and Soviet Union → power vacuum after World War II →
hasCulturalImpact	McCarthyism in the United States → militarization of science and technology → nuclear anxiety in popular culture →
hasEconomicAspect	arms expenditure → economic competition between capitalist and socialist systems → military–industrial complex →
hasKeyConcept	Iron Curtain → Third World → containment → domino theory → détente → non-alignment →
hasKeyDocument	Marshall Plan → NATO treaty → NSC-68 → Truman Doctrine → Warsaw Pact treaty →
hasLocation	Africa → Asia → Europe → Latin America → global →
hasMainBelligerent	Soviet Union → United States →
hasOutcome	collapse of the Soviet Union → emergence of United States as sole superpower → end of bipolar world order → expansion of NATO →
hasParticipant	Eastern Bloc → France → NATO → People's Republic of China → United Kingdom → Warsaw Pact → Western Bloc →
hasSignificantEvent	Bay of Pigs Invasion → Berlin Airlift → Berlin Blockade → Cuban Missile Crisis → Cuban Revolution → Helsinki Accords → Hungarian Revolution of 1956 → Korean War → Prague Spring → Reagan–Gorbachev summits → SALT I → SALT II → Soviet–Afghan War → Vietnam War → construction of the Berlin Wall → dissolution of the Soviet Union → fall of the Berlin Wall →
startTime	1947 →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
3rd Marine Division → A-4 Skyhawk → AEC → Alpha Jet → Armed Forces Security Agency → Atlantic Fleet → Augusto Pinochet → Avro Vulcan → Bell X-5 → Blackhorse insignia → Bolt Beranek and Newman → Bornholmer Strasse crossing → Burlington armour → Charles Pearre Cabell → Checkpoint Charlie → Chiang Ching-kuo → Chiang Kai-shek → Chobham-type composite armour → Deutsche Mark → Dwight D. Eisenhower → Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy → ECHELON → Edward Szczepanik → Eighth Air Force → European Launcher Development Organisation → Fairchild Camera and Instrument → Gagarin Air Force Academy → Gamal Abdel Nasser → Georgy Malenkov → Günter Schabowski → H Reactor → Hanford production reactors → Hawker Hunter → Hawker P.1127 → José Miró Cardona → K-East Reactor → Karl Marx Monument → Kbkg wz. 1960 → Kim Il Sung → Károly Grósz → Le Duc Tho → Lech Wałęsa → Leopard 1 → Lockheed P-2 Neptune → M48 Patton tank → M60 Patton → MILNET → Mare Island Naval Shipyard → Mauser BK-27 → McDonnell F-101 Voodoo → Mikhail Suslov → Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 → Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 → Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 → Mohammad Ali Bogra → Mutual Defense Agreement (1958) → Nam Il → National Security Council Intelligence Directive 9 → No. 111 Squadron RAF → No. 6 Squadron RAF → Norris Bradbury → North American F-86 Sabre → Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado → Pope Pius XII → Project Orion (nuclear pulse propulsion) → R-17 → R-300 Elbrus → RV Vityaz → Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm → Rolls-Royce XG-40 → Royal Air Force Fighter Command → S-75 Dvina → SR-71 Blackbird → Saab 32 Lansen → Saab 35 Draken → Saturn V → Snecma M53 → Soviet Military Headquarters in Karlshorst → Soviet Navy → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces → Special Power Excursion Reactor Test series → Strategic Computing Initiative → Strategic Computing Initiative → Strikemaster → Sukhoi Su-7 → Supermarine Scimitar → Task Force 158 → Tupolev Tu-114 → Tupolev Tu-16 → Tupolev Tu-22 → Tupolev Tu-4 → U.S. thermonuclear weapons program → United States X Corps → Vanguard TV-4 → W-3 Sokół →	era
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment → 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment → 1st Canadian Division → 28th Infantry Division → 7th Infantry Division (United States) → 8th Guards Army → Blackhorse Regiment → C. Robert Kehler → Canadian Army (pre‑1968) → Canadian Army Medical Corps → Curtis LeMay → Czechoslovak Air Force → First United States Army → Francis Gary Powers → French I Corps → German Air Force → Int Corps → Iowa-class battleship → James M. Gavin → James M. Gavin → James R. Schlesinger → James Stewart → Lance W. Lord → Long-Range Aviation → Luftbrücke → M48 Patton tank → Manuel Noriega → Maxwell D. Taylor → Military Transport Aviation → Missile Scare → Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte → Nikolai Ogarkov → No. 1 Group RAF → No. 1 Squadron RAF → No. 11 Squadron RAF → No. 2 Group RAF → No. 2 Squadron RAF → No. 29 Squadron RAF → No. 3 Squadron RAF → No. 41 Squadron RAF → Office of Policy Coordination → Operation Anadyr → Operation Vittles → People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada → Polish Air Force → Polish Navy → Powers incident → R-11 → RAF Chicksands → RAF Police → RAF Strike Command → Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force → Romanian Air Force → Romanian Armed Forces → Romanian Land Forces → Royal Air Force → Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve → Royal Canadian Navy → Sergei Akhromeyev → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Black Sea Fleet → Soviet Ground Forces → Soviet Navy → Soviet armed forces → Strategic Air Command → Swiss Air Force → Thirteenth Air Force → USS Iowa → Układ Warszawski → United States Army Security Agency → United States Seventh Fleet → Urgent Fury → V Corps (United States) → Walter Krupinski → West Berlin Allied forces → Women's Royal Army Corps → Yugoslav Air Force →	conflict
1958 Iraqi coup d'état → 1973 Chilean coup d'état → 82nd United States Congress ("Cold War era") → Angolan Civil War → Bangladesh Liberation War → Battle of Hue → Bay of Pigs Invasion → Berlin Blockade → Berlin Crisis → Borneo Confrontation → Cambodian Civil War → Cambodian–Vietnamese War → Cuban Revolution → Dominican Civil War → Egyptian revolution of 1952 ("Cold War context") → Eisenhower Doctrine → Eisenhower administration → Ethiopian Civil War → First Indochina War → Greek Civil War → Gulf of Tonkin incident → Hungarian Revolution of 1956 → Iran–Iraq War → Korean War → Laotian Civil War → Luftbrücke → Malayan Emergency → North Yemen Civil War → October Crisis → Operation Cyclone → Operation Just Cause → Operation Power Pack → Operation Urgent Fury → People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada → Polish October 1956 → Salvadoran Civil War → Sarawak Communist Insurgency → Saur Revolution → Sino-Indian War → Sino-Vietnamese War → Sino–Soviet border conflict → Soviet period ("Cold War era") → Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan ("late Cold War") → Soviet–Hungarian relations → Space Race →	partOf
ASEAN Declaration ("Cold War era") → Allied occupation of Japan → American sector of Berlin → Basic Treaty between the FRG and the GDR (1972) → Battle of Heartbreak Ridge → Battle of Santa Clara ("Cold War era") → Bay of Pigs Monument → Berlin Wall → Black Buck raids → Border Protection Troops → C Reactor → Czechoslovak Air Force ("Cold War era") → D Reactor → Departamentul Securității Statului → European Monetary System ("Cold War era") → Executive Order 10431 → FDGB → First Sudanese Civil War ("Cold War era") → Foreign Operations Administration → Fourth International → Glienicke Bridge → Granma expedition ("Cold War era") → Hoxhaism → Iron Curtain → Kazimierz Sabbat → Leopoldo Galtieri → Marshall Plan → Modified Brussels Treaty → Mutual Security Program → N Reactor → National Defense Education Act amendments → Office of Defense Mobilization → Office of Policy Coordination → Operation Linebacker → Operation Product ("Cold War era") → Organisation for European Economic Co-operation → Pepe San Román → President's Science Advisory Committee → RAF Strike Command → San José Agreement ("late Cold War") → Soviet Union Pavilion → Treaty of Moscow (1970) → Truman Doctrine → de-Stalinization →	historicalPeriod
"I Have a Dream" speech ("Cold War era") → 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security → ANZUS → American folk music revival ("Cold War era United States") → Brezhnev Doctrine → Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in China → Communist Youth League of Hungary → Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 → Constitution of 1952 (Greece) → Consultative Council of the Provisional Revolutionary Government → Czechoslovakia–West Germany border ("NATO–Warsaw Pact confrontation") → Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 → Dignitatis Humanae ("Cold War era") → Dimitrov Communist Youth Union → East German National People's Army → Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami → Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" → Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" ("Cold War era Soviet Union") → Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" ("Cold War era Soviet Union") → Modern Republicanism → New Frontier → Nixon shock → Non-Aligned Movement → Non-Aligned Movement → Office of Policy Coordination → Paasikivi–Kekkonen line → Panjsher offensives → Russell–Einstein Manifesto → Society for German–Soviet Friendship → The Jews of Silence → Third International Theory ("Cold War era") → Trade Expansion Act of 1962 → Treaty of Osimo → U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (Expo 58) → Union of Socialist Youth → United States Ambassador to South Vietnam → United States–Hungary relations → Vietnamese nationalism → one-dimensional society ("Cold War era") →	historicalContext
83rd United States Congress → 87th United States Congress → Battle of Grammos–Vitsi → Bulgarian Communist Party → Communist Party USA → Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Defense Communications Agency → Klushino, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ("Cold War period (for its main notability)") → Korean War CIB → MSZMP → Mahabad Republic → Mahaz-e Milli → Military Armistice Commission → Pentapartito → Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam → R-7 Semyorka → RAF Bentley Priory → Saur Revolution ("Cold War era") → Savannah River Site → Socialist Republic of Montenegro → Soviet Union → Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union → Trust Territory of Cameroon under British administration → Trust Territory of Cameroon under French administration → Twelfth Air Force ("Cold War era") → Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution ("Cold War era") → West Berlin → West Germany →	historicalEra
1972 Summit Series → 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état → 1980 Summer Olympics → Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence Purposes → Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty → CSCE Final Act → Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 → Geneva Conference of 1954 → John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech → Mercury program → National Defense Education Act → Public Law 99-433 → SALT I → SALT II → The Uncertain Trumpet →	context
Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament → Committee on the Present Danger → DSS → House Un-American Activities Committee → KGB → Malayan National Liberation Army → Nationale Volksarmee → Panamanian Defense Forces → Securitate →	activeDuring
Czechoslovakia–West Germany border → Democratic Women’s League of Germany → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia → LWP → Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy → People's Militia → Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina → Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) → Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR → Yugoslavia–Italy border →	existedDuring
Education in a Divided World → Eisenhower's farewell address → Reagan Doctrine → Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs → Swords and Plowshares → The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms → The Essence of Security → The Real Terror Network → Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis →	mainSubject
Berlin Airlift → Eisenhower's 1960 State of the Union Address → Governing Mayor of West Berlin → Kennedy administration → Polish government-in-exile → United States Ambassador to West Germany → United States High Commissioner for Germany → Warsaw Pact →	locatedInTimePeriod
Albanian Sigurimi → Czechoslovak StB → OKB-1 → Observer Corps → President of the Republic of Poland in exile → Strategic Air Command → Western European Union →	operatedDuring
Explorer 1 → Royal Observer Corps crest → Stalin’s death mask ("Cold War era") → United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia → United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union →	associatedWith
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum → Imperial War Museum Duxford → Imperial War Museum North → Imperial War Museums →	focusesOn
Carter Doctrine → Kennedy's European tour of 1963 → Paris Summit of 1960 → Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1953 →	hasContext
Bess Truman → Kitty Oppenheimer → Mamie Eisenhower ("Cold War era") → Nina Khrushcheva →	livedDuring
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance → Czechoslovak border guards → Eastern Bloc security forces → Senate of Berlin (West) →	operatedInPeriod
British sector of Berlin → Containment → New Look defense policy →	appliesToPeriod
British intelligence → Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament → Royal Observer Corps →	notableEra
U-2 incident of 1960 → Vanguard program →	conflictContext
Eritrean War of Independence ("Cold War era") → Soviet–Afghan War →	conflictIn
Pacific Air Forces → Royal Air Force units →	conflictInvolvement
Defense Support Program → Tupolev Tu-20 / Tu-95 →	designedDuring
Cold War liberalism → First World →	emergedDuring
21st Space Wing ("Cold War (late period space operations)") → Royal Corps of Transport →	engagement
Rockwell International → Soviet Championship League →	eraOfProminence
Bulgarian Communist Party → Romanian Communist Party →	governedDuring
Charlie Wilson's War → Watchmen (film) →	hasSubject
Bay of Pigs Monument → Jumpin' Jack Flash →	hasTheme
Alliance for Progress → Point Four Program →	ideologicalContext
Outer Space Treaty → Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty →	negotiatedDuring
Army Catering Corps → Royal Army Ordnance Corps →	operatedIn
Philip M. Kaiser →	activeInPeriod
Fifth Party System in United States politics →	associatedWithEvent
Bulgarian State Security →	associatedWithPeriod
Freedom Day (Portugal) ("Cold War era") →	chronologicalContext
Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance →	concludedInContextOf
Cuban Missile Crisis →	conflictDuring
50th Space Wing →	conflictEraActivity
USS Forrestal (CV-59) →	conflictParticipatedIn
Royal Air Force personnel →	conflictParticipation
R-300 Elbrus ("Cold War period") →	deploymentPeriod
Tupolev Tu-134 →	designEra
Halifax-class frigate →	designPeriod
Eurocommunism →	developedInContextOf
Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters ("Cold War nuclear arms race") →	discusses
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party →	dominantPeriod
Latin American Boom →	emergedInContextOf
Titoism →	emergedInPeriod
dissolution of the Soviet Union →	endedEra
Canadian War Museum →	exhibitionTheme
United States nuclear weapons complex →	expandedDuring
Battleship USS Iowa Museum →	focusesOnPeriod
Brezhnev stagnation →	foreignPolicyContext
United States European Command →	formedDuring
Hungary–Austria border ("Cold War divide between Eastern Bloc and Western Europe") →	formerPoliticalRole
USSR–Cuba military alliance →	geopoliticalContext
Modern era →	hasCharacteristic
Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald →	hasEra
Royal Netherlands Navy →	hasHistoricalConflict
Anti-British National Liberation War →	hasHistoricalContext
Europe →	hasHistoricalEvent
UFOs ("Cold War era") →	hasHistoricalPeak
White House Plumbers ("Cold War era") →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Playa Girón →	hasHistoricalPeriodOfSignificance
Soviet–Finnish relations →	hasKeyPeriod
Cold War rhetoric →	hasTimePeriod
American nationalism ("Cold War United States") →	historicalDevelopment
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis ("Cold War era") →	historicalPeriodCovered
Neues Deutschland →	historicalPeriodOfProminence
Order of the Red Banner →	historicalPeriodOfUse
United States–Cuba relations →	ideologicalConflict
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ("Cold War era") →	inception
Military history of the Territorial Army ("Cold War period") →	includesEvent
Antarctic Treaty System ("Cold War geopolitical context") →	influencedBy
Romanian Communist Party →	inPowerDuring
Twilight War →	isDifferentFrom
1960 United States presidential election →	keyIssue
U Thant ("Cold War diplomacy") →	knownFor
West Berlin Allied forces →	locatedInTime
Hallstein Doctrine →	mainPeriod
88th United States Congress →	meetsDuring
83rd United States Congress →	meetsDuringConflict
William C. McCool →	militaryConflict
Tagebuch 1966–1971 →	movementContext
Memoirs: 1925–1950 →	nonfictionSubject
Royal Canadian Navy →	notableConflict
The Iron Lady ("Cold War politics") →	notableIn
James G. Blight →	notableTopic
Technical Cooperation Administration →	operatedInTheContextOf
Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany →	operatedInWar
Su-22 →	originEra