Cold War History
The cold war was to last almost to the fall of the iron curtain and the death of the soviet union.
Cold war history. Browse the list of issues and latest articles from cold war history. Cwihp has become internationally recognized as the world s preeminent resource on the cold war. Black ops cold war was just announced in a warzone mode called know your history. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight.
The united states became the leader of the free market capitalist world. List of issues latest articles partial access. 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 origins of the cold war can be traced to the late 1910 s when america experienced the red scare.
There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists the united states and the soviet union. The match consisted of solving a puzzle in order to call a nuke down on the stadium area of the map. In 1945 one major war ended and another began. Suspicion and apprehension of the soviet union remained constant throughout the twenties and thirties intensifying with josef stalin s brutal regime.
The cold war was waged on political economic and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war ii the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union the term cold is used because there was no large scale fighting directly between the two. In june 1950 the first military action of the cold war began when the soviet backed north korean people s army invaded its pro western neighbor to the south. 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.
Gus weiss a shrewd intelligence insider pulled off an audacious tech hack against the soviets in the last century. Cold war history since its establishment in august 1991 the cold war international history project cwihp has amassed a tremendous collection of archival documents on the cold war era from the once secret archives of former communist countries.