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While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks). [1] [2]
Articles relating to the Post–Cold War era, a period of history that follows the end of the Cold War, which represents history after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The speech, written by journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, [4] proclaimed, "we are today in the midst of a cold war." [5] Newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide currency with his book The Cold War. When asked in 1947 about the source of the term, Lippmann traced it to a French term from the 1930s, la guerre froide. [6] [B]
The hope of spinning off a stable asset, according to Lampert, is to increase capital in Sears’ portfolio, which would filter down into the stores, thus providing much needed income for the Sears brand. [11] Lampert revised his offer to buy Kenmore in August 2018 for $400 million and without Sears' Home Services division. [12]
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 ...
Pages in category "Military operations of the Cold War" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Once the Cold War ended, it was superseded by other exercises. The last Reforger exercise was Reforger 93. Exercise Steadfast Defender is the most similar military exercise that has taken place in the 21st century, also involving North American troops deploying across the Atlantic Ocean to exercise with European NATO allies. [ 1 ]
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).