Cold War

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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.

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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
surface form: Warsaw Pact treaty
hasLocation Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
global
hasMainBelligerent Soviet Union
United States of America
surface form: 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 regimes
surface form: Eastern Bloc

France
NATO
China
surface form: People's Republic of China

United Kingdom
Warsaw Pact
NATO
surface form: 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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Supermarine Attacker usedIn Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War period
SM-65 Atlas usedIn Cold War
Pentapartito historicalEra Cold War
Supermarine Scimitar era Cold War
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 era Cold War
Dover Castle usedDuring Cold War
San José Agreement historicalPeriod Cold War
this entity surface form: late Cold War
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" historicalContext Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era Soviet Union
Yugoslav Air Force conflict Cold War
Yugoslav Air Force timePeriod Cold War
Soviet Ground Forces conflict Cold War
Lech Wałęsa era Cold War
FDGB (Free German Trade Union Federation) historicalPeriod Cold War
subject surface form: FDGB
Erich Honecker participantIn Cold War
Hawker Hunter era Cold War
East German National People's Army (logistical support) historicalContext Cold War
subject surface form: East German National People's Army
CSCE Final Act context Cold War
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" historicalContext Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era Soviet Union
Bikini Atoll symbolOf Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War nuclear arms race
Tupolev Tu-4 bomber era Cold War
subject surface form: Tupolev Tu-4
82nd United States Congress partOf Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Tupolev Tu-16 bomber era Cold War
subject surface form: Tupolev Tu-16
Hawker P.1127 era Cold War
Diplomacy subject Cold War
Tupolev Tu-20 / Tu-95 strategic bomber designedDuring Cold War
subject surface form: Tupolev Tu-20 / Tu-95
Tupolev Tu-114 airliner era Cold War
subject surface form: Tupolev Tu-114
Brent Scowcroft servedIn Cold War
OKB-1 operatedDuring Cold War
MSZMP historicalEra Cold War
DSE timePeriod Cold War
subject surface form: Democratic Army of Greece
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Tupolev Tu-22 bomber era Cold War
subject surface form: Tupolev Tu-22