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		The Cold War continued from the end of World War II until the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
		The Korean War, the Vietnam War and the conflict in Afghanistan were some of the occasions when the aggression between those two parts of the world took the form of an armed conflict, but much of it was conducted by or against surrogates and through spies and traitors who were working undercover.
		Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/c/co/cold_war_1.html (789 words)

	The Cold War since 1970 Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The armies of the countries involved rarely had much participation in the Cold War; the war was primarily fought by intelligence agencies like the CIA (United States), MI6 (Great Britain), BND (West Germany), Stasi (East Germany) and the KGB (USSR).
		The agent war of mutual espionage both of civilian and military targets may have caused most casualties of the Cold War.
		The Cold War also inspired many movie companies and writers, resulting in an enormous number of books and movies, some more fictional (such as James Bond) and some less, in particular Tom Clancy made himself a name as a master of vividly describing the agent and espionage war under the surface.
	www.umiya.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_cold_war_since_1970.html (1975 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cold War
		Cold War, term used to describe the post-World War II struggle between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies.
		In the late 1950s Khrushchev launched a new series of crises over Berlin, and in 1961 the Soviet government built the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Germany.
		The most serious Cold War confrontation between the United States and the USSR that took place in the Third World—one that raised the specter of nuclear war—occurred in 1962.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761569374 (2666 words)

	Cold War Liberalism and the Rise of the Liberal Consensus
		In the 1950s, as a result of the Cold War, it seemed to many Americans that they, and even the Congress of the United States, were increasingly shut out of and prevented from making the major decisions that confronted America.
		By the early 1960s, it was increasingly clear that the President and the executive branch of government had increased its power at the expense of Congress and American democracy.
		According to Loewen, the American government in the 1950s and 1960s began to carry out many actions that were undemocratic and violated the basic principles that America stood for in the Cold War.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/liberal.htm (1969 words)

	cold war. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After the war the West felt threatened by the continued expansionist policy of the Soviet Union, and the traditional Russian fear of incursion from the West continued.
		During the cold war the general policy of the West toward the Communist states was to contain them (i.e., keep them within their current borders) with the hope that internal division, failure, or evolution might end their threat.
		From 1989 to 1991 the cold war came to an end with the opening of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communist party dictatorship in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/coldwar.html (1074 words)

	Origins of the Cold War - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The British were determined since the Crimean War in the 1850s to slow Russian expansion at the expense of Ottoman Turkey, the "sick man of Europe".
		And war spending financially cured the depression, pulling unemployment down from 14 percent in 1940 to less than 2 percent in 1943 as the labor force grew by ten million.
		Having lost 20 million dead in the war, suffered German invasion through Poland twice in 30 years, and suffered tens of millions of causalities due to onslaughts from the West three times in the preceding 150 years, first with Napoleon, the Soviet Union was determined to destroy Germany's capacity for another war.
	www.questionz.net /War/Cold_War_Causes.html (2821 words)

	NARA - Research - Cold War International History Conference: Paper by David S. Patterson
		In the context of the United States and the Cold War, national security policy involved the U.S. response to the specter of world Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular.
		Given the existing Cold War tensions, perhaps even more vigorous pursuit of arms control by Eisenhower would have made little difference, and the Soviet leadership for its own reasons may not have been seriously interested in curtailing the arms race.
		Despite changing administrations, the waxing and waning of Cold War tensions, and the introduction of new issues, the main principles underlying U.S. arms control policies during the 1950s and 1960s were fairly consistent.
	www.archives.gov /research/cold-war/conference/patterson.html (5608 words)

	Teaching Guide for "Globalization" Essays
		International relations and world politics in the second half of the twentieth century were strongly informed by another global factor - the Cold War (i.e., the ideological struggle between the Western nations, the United States and its allies, and the Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union and China and their allies).
		The early and most intense years of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s coincided with the de-colonization of Asia and Africa and the creation of more than 70 new nation-states.
		Although the "cold war" never developed into a "hot war" of actual military conflict in Europe or North America, civil wars within and wars between new nation-states in Africa and Asia were fueled and supported by Cold War tensions.
	www.ssrc.org /sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_globalization.htm (1767 words)

	CSPN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Cold War finally ended in 1989 and 1990 when pro-democracy uprisings in eastern Europe and pro-independence movements in many Soviet republics led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence.
		Furthermore, rising personal income levels throughout the 1950s and 1960s made many Americans optimistic about the future and convinced them that their society was stable and secure.
		The expansion of Washington's military infrastructure during the Cold War is one of the main reasons why about 7% of the land in Washington state is now owned by the military or the Department of Energy.
	www.washington.edu /uwired/outreach/cspn/curcan/main.html (12738 words)

	Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s - Conflict and War - CBC Archives
		Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s - Conflict and War - CBC Archives
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		Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s
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	The Anti-Communist Crusade and the Rise of McCarthyism
		In the early 1950s, Nancy Davis discovered her name was on one of the fllists and she could not longer work as an actress.
		Many Americans in the 1950s were afraid to speak their mind or talk about their opinions for fear that they would stand out from the crowd and be called communists.
		In the 1950s and 1960s, the FBI and the CIA opened people's mail, followed and harassed political groups challenging government policy, and attempted to "neutralize" Americans who did not support America's aggressive Cold War policies.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm (2016 words)

	CNN Cold War - Knowledge Bank: Glossary
		Developed in the 1960s, these intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were housed in deep underground concrete silos built to withstand a nuclear attack.
		In the 1950s a number of U.S. military officials warned about a "bomber gap," alleging the Soviet Union had more planes than the United States that were capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
		A thaw in Cold War relations between the United States and Soviet Union from 1969-1975, highlighted by the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaty and the Helsinki Accords.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/glossary/am.index.html (2001 words)

	Global Beat: Pakistan's Economic Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When the Cold War was coming to an end, the 1970s oil boom in the nearby manpower starved Persian Gulf enabled Pakistan to export manpower in large numbers.
		The defeat of the Pakistan army in the war of December 1971 with India and the disintegration of the country into two did give a jolt to the Pakistan psyche, but it proved to be short lived.
		The little development that took place in 1950s and 1960s was accidental and not due to governmental policies.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/southasia/06181998sreedhar1.html (4239 words)

	H102 Lecture 24: The Cold War and the 1950s: The Affluent Society
		The Cold War and the spread of Communism in Eastern Europe, China, and Korea in the late 1940s and early 1950s prompted the United States to increase
		After the end of World War II, the Allies had divided the city of Berlin, and the country of Germany as a whole, into four zones, one controlled by the Soviet Union, and the other three controlled by Great Britain, France, and the United States.
		In China, the ongoing civil war between the Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung (also spelled "Zedong"), came to a close in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters took refuge on the island of Formosa (Taiwan).
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture24.html (2336 words)

	Cold War
		This revisionist approach reached its height during the Vietnam War when many began to view the American and Soviet empires as morally comprable.
		The opening of the Soviet archives has demonstrated that the USSR certainly had expansionist ambitions.
		This combined with full disclosure of Soviet atrocities has brought historians back to an opinion much closer to the original 1950s view.
	www.morelawinfo.com /War/Cold_War.shtml (723 words)

	A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Europeans were declaring the outbreak of "Cold War II." French President Francois Mitterrand compared the situation that year to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the 1948 face-off over Berlin.
		During the 1950s and 1960s, the US Strategic Air Command and the Navy had conducted similar operations--intelligence-gathering missions, including "ferret" operations aimed at detecting locations of, reactions by, and gaps in Soviet radar and air defense installations--along the USSR's Eurasian periphery in preparation for possible nuclear war.
		The regime appears to have aggravated popular fears of war for a specific purpose: to prepare the population for the possibility that repeated promises to raise living standards might have to be abandoned in order to increase defense spending in the face of a growing danger of a US military strike on the USSR.
	www.cia.gov /csi/monograph/coldwar/source.htm (9083 words)

	Item Description
		In the 1950s, many Americans were concerned about the rise of communism and especially the Soviet Union.
		In the "Cold War," the two nations struggled for political, ideological, and economic superiority.
		Concerns over potential nuclear war during the 1950s and 1960s led to a government campaign to teach defense strategies and encourage citizens to create fallout shelters to protect them from nuclear attacks.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/NewDetails?oid=4561950 (159 words)

	US Labor Against the War: MILITARY SPENDING AND ECONOMIC CRISIS
		The general point President Eisenhower made in the 1950s is still relevant today although the magnitude of the distortions of military spending for peoples lives have grown to an extent unimagined in the 1950s.
		From the Alien and Sedition Acts, to the jailing of anti-war activists during World War I, to the anti-communist campaigns of the 1940s to the 1960s, to President Reagan?s efforts to jail opponents of his Central America policies to the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts today, the connections between militarism and domestic repression are clear.
		During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, and much later in the Reagan era, military spending provided a kind of Keynesian boost to the economy.
	www.uslaboragainstwar.org /article.php?id=3564 (3626 words)

	Cold War: The Balance of Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Yet during the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, the fear of nuclear war went beyond the fear of attacks on isolated cities or installations.
		For a time, the possibility of total nuclear war could not be ruled out, and questions were raised not only about the level of destruction that might result from a nuclear exchange, but also about what life might be like after a nuclear war.
		President Truman’s Cold War policy became one of "containment" of the Soviets, which meant not challenging the Communists where they were already established, but doing everything possible to see to it that their sphere did not enlarge itself at the expense of "free" nations.
	sagehistory.net /coldwar/coldwar.html (2540 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / House OKs speedy elections if attacked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Congress considered but never acted on the continuity question during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, when the fear was that Washington could be obliterated in a nuclear attack.
		The current legislation has split the two parties in the House, with many Democrats saying they were not given the chance to offer a constitutional amendment that would allow for temporary appointments until special elections could be held.
		Several warned of a martial law condition, with the executive branch taking over legislative authorities such as declaring war during the 45 days that Congress is unable to function.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/04/22/house_weighs_response_to_possible_attack (780 words)

	Two Congressmen Look at "One China"
		The simple answer is that, during the Cold War, the United States saw China as an invaluable ally against the expansion of the Soviet Union, and for two decades, China was a useful partner.
		In the 1960s, Chinese revolutionary movements flourished in the region, but we always sided with the independent democracies of Asia against the Chinese dictatorship--except in the case of Taiwan.
		With the Cold War over, the Soviet Union extinct, and post-Tiananmen China tightening, not relaxing, its grip on the political, civil, and religious rights of its people, I do not see that humoring China on the Taiwan issue serves America's interests any longer.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/hl821.cfm (3949 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 2004
		In the 1950s and 1960s, various joint headquarters planned and exercised expeditionary deployments involving multiple Army divisions.
		Many of us Cold War officers had magnificent leader development opportunities because we were the subjects of such strange career development vagaries.
		He argues that “much of the Army was expeditionary during the Cold War.” In fact, for most of the Cold War, the Army’s rapidly deployable capability was limited to a single contingency corps.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /USAWC/PARAMETERS/04autumn/c&r-aut.htm (3654 words)

	Nikita Khrushchev
		Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev rose from the poverty of his youth to become the most powerful Russian in the Communist Party and the personification of the Cold War of the 1950s and early 1960s.
		Further deepening the tensions of the Cold War, Khrushchev urged East Berlin officials to build a brick wall around West Berlin, cutting off all contact between citizens of East and West Berlin.
		The defining moment of the Cold War came in the fall of 1962.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1906.html (1276 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The authors came of age at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and early 1960s, worked in the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies, and recently gained access to newly declassified archival material in Moscow.
		The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union 1917-1991 by Ronald E. Powaski
		Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Kruschev, opens a new dimension to those who are intrested in reading what had really happened during the Cold War.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674455320?v=glance (1081 words)

	Turning kids into paranoids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Yet we teach our children to cower and fear for their lives because of the rare actions of a few deranged individuals in a nation of 260 million.
		During the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced hiding under their desks in the event of nuclear attack.
		Those drills would not have saved a single child from atomic fire but they contributed mightily to the choking climate of paranoia that characterized that period.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19991117/ED_001.htm (392 words)

	Cold War time line
		The early years, after the World War the world found itself between the emerging superpowers which silently built up their antipathy during the war, but were united in the fight against a common enemy.
		The superpowers are exploring the playground and thinking about winning this war.
		Technological advances publicly visible in space exploration make it apparent that this war came to a crucial point - to the point of no return, when the powers are so great that there can be no tommorow for mankind if the war is going to be waged.
	www.cold-war.info /timeline.html (254 words)

	History News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As the war against Iraq grinds on, recent polls show that large majorities of people throughout the world now have a much lower opinion of the United States and its foreign policies than was reflected in polls of previous years.
		Remarkably, this is true both in countries whose governments support President Bush's war policy, such as Britain, Italy and Spain, and in those whose governments oppose the war, such as Germany, France and Russia.
		Most Europeans in the Cold War era were not against American policies of increasing trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion's share for NATO, the multilateral alliance to defend Europe.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~hns/articles/2003/040403a.html (496 words)

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