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  2. Culture during the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Freakonomics Radio podcast episode "How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386)" [49] explores the impact that the supermarket had and has on American culture, including the depth of policy decisions by the US Government that impacted agriculture, as well as serving a propaganda weapon against the Soviet Union. The role of ...

  3. Effects of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War defined the political role of the United States after World War II. By 1989, the United States had military alliances with 50 countries and 1.5 million troops posted abroad in 117 countries, which institutionalized a global commitment to a huge permanent peacetime military-industrial complex and the large-scale military funding of ...

  4. CIA and the Cultural Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Cultural Cold War was a set of propaganda campaigns waged by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with each country promoting their own culture, arts, literature, and music. In addition, less overtly, their opposing political choices and ideologies at the expense of the other.

  5. Gen X TikTok is recycling the culture of the late Cold War ...

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    Think of it as Cultural Cold War 2.0, with Russia as stand-in for the former Soviet Union. ... TikTok user @Vampslayin posted a vintage news report about the film's social impact: ...

  6. Domestic containment - Wikipedia

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    United States Information Service poster distributed in Asia depicting Juan dela Cruz ready to defend the Philippines under the threat of communism, 1951.. In the cultural history of the United States during the Cold War, domestic containment was the notion that women's main role is in the home, while men work to provide for the family in order to keep a stable home environment and uphold ...

  7. Clash of Civilizations - Wikipedia

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    The concept was originally coined by Austrian philosopher Hans Köchler in an essay on cultural identity (1972). [38] In a letter to UNESCO, Köchler had earlier proposed that the cultural organization of the United Nations should take up the issue of a "dialogue between different civilizations" (dialogue entre les différentes civilisations). [39]

  8. Rock music and the fall of communism - Wikipedia

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    Winning the World: Lessons for America's Future from the Cold War. Praeger. Ryback, Timothy (1990). Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, 1954-1988. Troitsky, Artemy (1987). Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505633-7.

  9. Cold War (1953–1962) - Wikipedia

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    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.