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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (1994) online; Goertz, Gary and Jack S. Levy, eds. Causal explanations, necessary conditions, and case studies: World War I and the End of the Cold War (2005), 10 essays from political scientists; online; Hogan, Michael, ed. The End of the Cold War.
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) [1] [2] was a process [3] by a United States federal government commission [4] to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War. Over 350 installations have been closed in five BRAC ...
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (1992) Gaddis, John Lewis and LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1992 7th ed. (1993) Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005) Garthoff, Raymond. The Great Transition:American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold ...
The cities played a major part in the Civil War, providing soldiers, money, training camps, supplies, and media support for the Union war effort. In the North, discontent with the 1863 draft law led to riots in several cities and in rural areas as well.
End of the Cold War – While many observers state the 1989 Malta Summit was the end of the Cold War, it was December 1991 before the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union formally recognized the conflict's end, with the Soviet Union also being dissolved at that time. Some key events leading up to the end include:
During the Cold War, the French nuclear deterrent was centered around the Force de frappe, a nuclear triad consisting of Dassault Mirage IV bombers carrying such nuclear weapons as the AN-22 gravity bomb and the ASMP stand-off attack missile, Pluton and Hades ballistic missiles, and the Redoutable-class submarine armed with strategic nuclear ...
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).