COLD WAR - HISTORY ARTICLES
Lasting from the end of World War II in 1945 until the early 1990s, the Cold War was one of the most significant events of the 20th century. For example, the Cold War included the major wars in both Vietnam and Korea, the high tension point of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the drama of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Click below to learn more about specific topics related to the Cold War.
|COLD WAR OVERVIEW
CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR|Causes of the Cold War
|Atomic Bombing of Japan |Communism |Ideological Conflict in the Cold War |Nuclear Arms Race |Potsdam Conference |Yalta Conference EARLY EVENTS OF THE COLD WARPROXY WARS IN THE COLD WAR|Proxy Wars in the Cold War
|Domino Theory |Korean War |Vietnam War |Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan CUBA AND THE COLD WAR|Berlin Wall |Brinkmanship in the Cold War |Capitalism |Containment in the Cold War |Democracy |Dictatorship |Espionage in the Cold War COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES|Dwight D. Eisenhower
|Harry S. Truman |House Un-American Activities Committee |McCarthyism |John F. Kennedy |Joseph McCarthy |Lyndon Johnson |Richard Nixon |Ronald Reagan DETENTE IN THE COLD WAR |
END OF THE COLD WAR|End of the Cold War
|Perestroika and Glasnost |Fall of the Berlin Wall |Propaganda in the Cold War |Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech |Space Race |U-2 Spy Plane Incident |Warsaw Pact SOVIET LEADERS OF THE COLD WAR |
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