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The name "Western Bloc" emerged in response to and as the antithesis of its Communist counterpart, the Eastern Bloc. Throughout the Cold War, the governments and the Western media were more inclined to refer to themselves as the "Free World" or the "First World", whereas the Eastern bloc was often referred to as the "Communist World" or less ...
Cold War – period of political and military tension that occurred after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
1953 World Map of alignments. ... The Cold War (1948–1953) is the ... Through the support of the Western bloc (most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC ...
Early in the Cold War era, NATO and the Warsaw Pact were created by the United States and the Soviet Union, respectively. They were also referred to as the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The circumstances of these two blocs were so different that they were essentially two worlds, however, they were not numbered first and second.
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states.
Russia’s efforts to destabilize Western democracies through computer hacking, disinformation and propaganda are having success across Europe, and NATO is taking notice. In the new cold war ...
Western Bloc related Eastern Bloc related Region Result Dekemvriana: December 3, 1944 January 11, 1945 Kingdom of Greece United Kingdom: EAM: Southern Europe: Western Bloc victory Anti-Communist resistance in Poland: 1944 1947 (1963) Cursed soldiers Polish People's Republic Soviet Union: Central Europe: Eastern Bloc victory Insurgency in the ...