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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Balao class usedInConflict Cold War
subject surface form: Balao-class submarine
Luna 9 spaceRaceContext Cold War
Civil Air Transport roleIn Cold War
No. 14 Squadron RAF conflict Cold War
Khe Sanh historicalEra Cold War
Gold Star medal usedIn Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Ramadan War timePeriod Cold War
Angleton activeDuring Cold War
subject surface form: James Jesus Angleton
Arab Cold War relatedTo Cold War
Mikoyan design bureau era Cold War
S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile system era Cold War
subject surface form: S-125 Neva/Pechora
2K12 Kub surface-to-air missile system era Cold War
subject surface form: 2K12 Kub
Hitch-22 subject Cold War
No. 39 Squadron RAF conflict Cold War
Westy era Cold War
subject surface form: William Westmoreland
Operation Menu timePeriod Cold War
Jacob Leon Rubenstein politicalContext Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War-era United States
Kadena Air Base usedDuring Cold War
Dragon Lady usedInConflict Cold War
subject surface form: Lockheed U-2
Dragon Lady developedDuring Cold War
subject surface form: Lockheed U-2
Dragon Lady usedBeyond Cold War
subject surface form: Lockheed U-2
TR-1A usedIn Cold War
SA-2 Guideline conflict Cold War
SA-2 Guideline era Cold War
S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna era Cold War
Detente partOf Cold War
subject surface form: Détente