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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RT-2PM Topol ICBM era Cold War
subject surface form: RT-2PM Topol
SS-25 Sickle ICBM era Cold War
subject surface form: SS-25 Sickle
Deutschland 89 mainSubject Cold War
The World United in Peace associatedPeriod Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
FAL usedInConflict Cold War
subject surface form: FN FAL
FAL era Cold War
subject surface form: FN FAL
Amphibian Man storyEra Cold War
Zelda Fuller settingTimePeriod Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Miracle Mile setInPeriod Cold War
U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter participatedIn Cold War
subject surface form: Christian A. Herter
this entity surface form: Cold War diplomacy
AIM-7 Sparrow missiles usedDuring Cold War
subject surface form: AIM-7 Sparrow
Minuteman missile program era Cold War
105 mm Royal Ordnance L7 rifled gun era Cold War
subject surface form: 105 mm Royal Ordnance L7
MTU MB 838 CaM 500 diesel engine era Cold War
subject surface form: MTU MB 838 CaM 500
Battle of Jezzine era Cold War
novel "The Bourne Identity" timePeriodOfSetting Cold War
subject surface form: The Bourne Identity
United States Navy submarine USS Brien McMahon (SSBN-642) named in his honor conflict Cold War
subject surface form: USS Brien McMahon (SSBN-642)
VMF conflict Cold War
Coastal Troops era Cold War
Kirov-class battlecruiser era Cold War
Sino–Soviet split relatedTo Cold War
Sino–Soviet border negotiations of the 1970s partOf Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War diplomacy
UR-100 ICBM era Cold War
subject surface form: UR-100
SS-11 Sego ICBM conflict Cold War
subject surface form: SS-11 Sego
Republic Aviation era Cold War
János Csermanek era Cold War
Sergey Gorshkov conflict Cold War
Edward Ochab era Cold War
Minuteman III era Cold War
Red Terror politicalContext Cold War
subject surface form: Red Terror (Ethiopia)