One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

He intimated that they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

Angola-Zimbabwe relations have remained cordial since the birth of both states, Angola in 1975 and Zimbabwe in 1979, during the Cold War.

The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

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* 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip " Tito " Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow " temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory ".

This increase was a result of the increased number of states, the fragility of states formed after 1945, the decline in interstate war, and the Cold War rivalry.

The Cold War ( 1945 – 1989 ) provided a global network of material and ideological support that perpetuated civil wars, which were mainly fought in weak ex-colonial states, rather than the relatively strong states that were aligned with the Warsaw Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the onset of the Cold War in 1947, the country was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany.

From 1945 to 1990, during the Cold War, the headquarters of the Soviet forces in Poland, the so-called Northern Group of Forces, was located in the city.

# Anti-Communism: This was included as a filter in the original 1988 edition of the book, but Chomsky argues that since the end of the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), anticommunism was replaced by the " War on Terror ", as the major social control mechanism.

* 1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.

* Gormly, James L. From Potsdam to the Cold War: Big Three Diplomacy, 1945 – 1947.

The metamorphosis of the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) into the Soviet – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ) gave impetus to spy novelists.

In his novels, Semyonov covered much Soviet intelligence history, ranging from the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1923 ), through the Great Patriotic War ( 1941 – 45 ), to the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ).

* 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

* 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

From 1945 to 1947, when the Cold War did not yet begin, the Thai economy continued to suffer greatly from the Second World War.

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945 – 1961.

A 2007 episode of the CBS television crime drama Cold Case, titled " Family 8108 ", dealt with the 1945 murder of a Japanese American man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after he and his family were released from Manzanar.

Afterwards, in 1945, the USA and the USSR fought the Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ) for control of the global European empires of France, Britain, the Netherlands, et al., which were politically destroyed by the WWII global warfare.

In the post – Cold War ( 1945 – 1991 ) world, the French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine described the USA as a hegemonic hyperpower, because of its unilateral military actions worldwide, especially against Iraq ; while the US political scientists John Mearsheimer and Joseph Nye counter that the USA is not a true hegemon because it has neither the financial nor the military resources to impose a proper, formal, global hegemony.

* Beisner, Robert L. " Patterns of Peril: Dean Acheson Joins the Cold Warriors, 1945 – 46.

* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.

* Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945 – 1970 ( 2010 ), Kent State University Press by Carl Mirra ISBN 978-1-60635-051-5

The Cold War as Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945 – 1950 ( 1991 ) online edition

* 1961 – Cold 187um, American rapper and producer ( Above the Law )

* 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

The Cold War ( 1947 – 1953 ) is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.

Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989 – 2001.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum – Features much historical information about Civil Defense history, its equipment and methods, and many historical photographs and posters.

* Civil Defense Caves – Cold War community getaway in case of nuclear war located in Idaho

* " Civil Defence " – A site with details of the UK's Civil Defence preparations, including those implemented during the Cold War such as the Burlington Central Government War HQ., at Corsham, Wiltshire.

Lengthy Cold War-associated civil conflicts that ground to a halt include the wars of Guatemala ( 1960 – 1996 ), El Salvador ( 1979 – 1991 ) and Nicaragua ( 1970 – 1990 ).

* Cold War ( 1985 – 1991 )

He described the Cold War: " We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that " we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military – industrial complex.