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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subject surface form: Richard M. Bissell Jr.
Touch the Devil settingPeriod Cold War
Man and the Polar Regions temporalContext Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
X Corps historicalEra Cold War
Rudá věž smrti (Red Tower of Death) site historicalPeriod Cold War
subject surface form: Rudá věž smrti
Blackhorse patch usedDuring Cold War
Glienicker Brücke usedDuring Cold War
UK Parliament 1964–1966 historicalPeriod Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
29 Squadron conflict Cold War
subject surface form: No. 29 Squadron RAF
TriStar C2 usedIn Cold War
Thawra-ye Saur partOf Cold War
Declaration on international guarantees context Cold War
subject surface form: Declaration on International Guarantees
MfS operatedDuring Cold War
CVA-9 era Cold War
CVA-9 servedInConflict Cold War
subject surface form: USS Essex (CV-9)
CVS-9 era Cold War
3 (F) Squadron conflict Cold War
subject surface form: No. 3 (F) Squadron RAF
M47 Patton era Cold War
No. 216 Squadron RAF theatre Cold War
William Casey era Cold War
subject surface form: William J. Casey
Stasi Records Agency archivesPeriod Cold War
this entity surface form: Cold War era
Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum era Cold War
NVA emblem historicalPeriod Cold War