Cold War Period
The 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 late 1970s.
Cold war period. 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. As the subseries return to the first black ops cold war espionage and intrigue black ops cold war s single player campaign has you joining up with familiar faces mason woods and hudson for a. Brewer writes that kansas played a significantly outsized role during the cold war during a time when it was believed that civilization hung in the balance and nuclear devastation was imminent. This term is used to describe the relationship between america and the soviet union 1945 to 1980.
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. Courtesy of bob fleitz. Fort sill 1965 photos courtesy of tom kurtz c battery 1 17th fa augsburg germany july 1976. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by george orwell in an article published in 1945.
The cold war was an ongoing political rivalry between the united states and the soviet union and their respective allies that developed after world war ii. Fort bragg nc 4th 17th artillery 1974 78 courtesy of richard smith 1 17 fa taken at ft sill in about april 1978. Though the parties were technically at peace the period was. Many american officials feared this.