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Asking if it would have been possible to predict that the wartime alliance would fall apart within a matter of months, leaving in its place nearly a half century of cold war, Gaddis wrote in his 1997 book We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History the following: Geography, demography, and tradition contributed to this outcome but did not ...
John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. [1] He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, [1] and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York ...
Cold War History 8.2 (2008): 135–156. Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. (2006). 142 pp. Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Russia's Twentieth Century in History and Historiography," The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, 2000; Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, (1998) also
Three-world model. The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were originally used to divide the world's nations into three categories. The complete overthrow of the pre–World War II status quo left two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) vying for ultimate global supremacy, a struggle known as the Cold War. They ...
X Article. The " X Article " is an article, formally titled " The Sources of Soviet Conduct ", written by George F. Kennan and published under the pseudonym "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. It introduced the term "containment" to widespread use and advocated the strategic use of that concept against the Soviet Union.
First World. The "Three Worlds" of the Cold War (between 30 April and 24 June 1975) First World: Countries aligned with the Western Bloc (i.e., NATO and allies), led by the United States. Second World: Countries aligned with the Eastern Bloc (i.e., Warsaw Pact, China, and allies), led by the Soviet Union. Third World: The Non-Aligned Movement ...
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union 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. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale ...
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.