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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this entity surface form: Cold War in Latin America
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subject surface form: Challenger 1
RAF Leuchars usedDuring Cold War
No. 111 Squadron conflict Cold War
subject surface form: No. 111 Squadron RAF
Merseburg, East Germany historicalContext Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War Europe
Charlie Wilson conflict Cold War
Gust Avrakotos timePeriod Cold War
THF usedDuring Cold War
THF historicalPeriod Cold War
Rocky Flats Plant (historical) era Cold War
subject surface form: Rocky Flats Plant
Fernald Feed Materials Production Center (historical) era Cold War
subject surface form: Fernald Feed Materials Production Center
Hughes Helicopters era Cold War
Redstone rocket era Cold War
Mercury Seven era Cold War
His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time timePeriodCovered Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Raymond conflict Cold War
subject surface form: Joseph Raymond McCarthy
this entity surface form: Cold War (political context)
Chilean military dictatorship alliedWith Cold War
this entity surface form: United States during Cold War
No. 56 Squadron RAF conflict Cold War
Haus der Geschichte focusesOn Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War in Germany
Allied Kommandatura (in early years) appliesToConflict Cold War
subject surface form: Allied Kommandatura
American Spy mainSubject Cold War
American Spy settingTime Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
DDR warKonfliktparteiIn Cold War
this entity surface form: Kalter Krieg
Volkskammer historicalEra Cold War
An Lộc historicalEra Cold War
MR II (South Vietnam) era Cold War