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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.
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.
A locator map for three major powers of the Second Cold War, America, Russia and China Ukrainian Географія Наступної Світової Холодної Війни США, Росії та Китаю
English: World map showing the two blocs during the Cold War in 1959. NATO member states . ... File:Cold War Map 1980.svg - 1980 Cold War map; Maps of world history: BC:
Maps of colonization history 1492 · 1550 · 1600 · 1660 · 1754 · 1800 · 1812 · 1822 · 1885 · 1898 · 1914 · 1920 · 1936 · 1938 · 1945 · 1959 · 1974 · 1975 · 2007 Animated Map. Maps of Cold War 1959 · 1980 · Nows · see also: Eastern Hemisphere only maps template (1300BC-1500AD) (this template: · view · discuss)
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 ...
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 ...
The Congo Crisis in 1960 drew Cold War battle lines in Africa, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo became a Soviet ally, causing concern in the West. [3] However, by the early 1960s, the Cold War reached its most dangerous point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.