Cold War Era
Cold war 1947 1991 borders of nato blue and warsaw pact red states during the cold war era in the northern hemisphere.
Cold war era. Between 1946 and 1991 the united states the soviet union and their allies were locked in a long tense conflict known as the cold war. The cold war rivalry between the united states and the soviet union lasted for decades and resulted in anti communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the. The u s a and russia where both countries often flirted with espionage and off the book black operations. The cold war was waged on political economic and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
The cold war was a pivotal era in the twentieth century. 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. Mushroom cloud of the ivy mike nuclear test 1952. The term cold war itself popularized in a 1946 speech by prime minister winston churchill of britain describes the ideological struggle between democracy and communism that began shortly after the end of world war ii and lasted until 1991.