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A Second Cold War, [1] [2] Cold War II, [3] [4] or the New Cold War [5] [6] [7] has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century between usually, on one side, the United States and, on the other, either China or Russia—the successor state of the Soviet Union, which led the Eastern Bloc during the original Cold War.
United States forces, together with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, were also instrumental in collapsing Adolf Hitler's government in Germany and deposing Benito Mussolini in Italy. In the end of World War II, the U.S. government struggled with the Soviet Union for global leadership, influence and security within the context of the Cold War.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension 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, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
There’s a lesson in that experience for Cold War 2.0: Even as the United States and its allies act against Putin, they need diplomacy, too — to reduce the risk that this Cold War will be more ...
The global economy could be sleepwalking into a second Cold War, a leading international body has warned, as tensions between the U.S. and China risk wiping trillions from worldwide GDP.
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 United States government has been involved in numerous interventions in foreign countries throughout its history. The U.S. has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period. [1]
The Second Cold War, [27] [28] [29] also called Cold War II, [30] [31] Cold War 2.0, [32] [33] or the New Cold War, [34] [35] is a term describing post-Cold-War era of political and military tensions between the United States and Russia and/or China.