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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union 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.
25 Οκτ 2024 · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
4 Ιαν 2023 · A recent study in the journal Nature projects a catastrophic 5 billion deaths. Once nuclear weapons became a significant element in US military force structures and planning, beginning in the late 1940s, government agencies began estimating nuclear war fatalities.
September 11: Chilean coup d'état — The democratically elected Marxist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, is deposed and dies of a gunshot wound during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. October 6: Yom Kippur War — Israel is attacked by Egypt and Syria, the war ends with a ceasefire.
14 Ιουλ 2022 · Millions of fatalities projected in Cold War conflict scenarios, but military and civilian leaders showed “reluctance to accept or cause large numbers of deaths” Key Internal analyses over the years concluded nuclear weapons would not compel the USSR to surrender and that a nuclear war could never produce a “winner”
27 Οκτ 2009 · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States.
For much of the early Cold War, the outspoken Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union. Vacillating between confronting the United States and backing off from hard-nosed foreign policies and threats, he also tried to institute significant domestic reforms.
