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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.
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...
The Cold War from 1947 to 1948 is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948. The Cold War emerged in Europe a few years after the successful US–USSR–UK coalition won World War II in Europe, and extended to 1989–1991.
The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) The Cold War Files; Documents available online regarding aerial intelligence during the Cold War, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library; Bibliographies. Annotated bibliography for the arms race from the Alsos Digital Library; News. Video and audio news reports from during 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).
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (1998) Romero, Federico. "Cold War historiography at the crossroads." Cold War History 14.4 (2014): 685–703. online; Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993), a primary source; Westad, Odd Arne. The Cold War: A World History (2017) pp 527–629
At the Spy Museum, Eric Allen, a retired history teacher from Indiana, wore a full-on border guard's NVA Grenztruppen uniform. A six-foot-three former court bailiff, he looked the part.