ABSTRACT
Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War – a conflict that stopped short to a full-blown war.
Benefiting from the recent research of newly open archives, the Encyclopedia of the Cold War discusses how this state of perpetual tensions arose, developed, and was resolved. This work examines the military, economic, diplomatic, and political evolution of the conflict as well as its impact on the different regions and cultures of the world. Using a unique geopolitical approach that will present Russian perspectives and others, the work covers all aspects of the Cold War, from communism to nuclear escalation and from UFOs to red diaper babies, highlighting its vast-ranging and lasting impact on international relations as well as on daily life. Although the work will focus on the 1945–1991 period, it will explore the roots of the conflict, starting with the formation of the Soviet state, and its legacy to the present day.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |53 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Able Archer
entry |3 pages
Abm Treaty
entry |3 pages
Acheson, Dean
entry |4 pages
Adenauer, Konrad
entry |4 pages
Afghanistan
entry |1 pages
Afl-Cio
entry |4 pages
Agriculture
entry |3 pages
Algeria
entry |3 pages
Allende, Salvador
entry |3 pages
Alliance For Progress
entry |2 pages
Amalrik, Andrei
entry |2 pages
American Century
entry |4 pages
Andropov, Yuri
entry |3 pages
Angola
entry |1 pages
Arbenz, Jacobo
entry |2 pages
Arc of Crisis
entry |4 pages
Arms Control
entry |6 pages
Arms Race
entry |2 pages
Aron, Raymond
entry |3 pages
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
entry |2 pages
Atlantic Charter
entry |3 pages
Atomic Energy Commission
entry |2 pages
Atoms for Peace Proposal
entry |3 pages
August Coup, 1991
entry |3 pages
Austria
entry |2 pages
Authoritarianism
letter |57 pages
B
entry |3 pages
Baghdad Pact
entry |2 pages
Bahr, Egon
entry |4 pages
Baker Iii, James
entry |2 pages
Ball, George
entry |5 pages
Baltic States
entry |2 pages
Bandung Conference
entry |2 pages
Bao Dai
entry |1 pages
Batista Fulgenico
entry |2 pages
Bay of Pigs Invasion
entry |4 pages
Beijing Summit, 1972
entry |2 pages
Bell, Daniel
entry |2 pages
Ben Bella, Ahmed
entry |2 pages
BeneŠ, Eduard
entry |3 pages
Bentley, Elizabeth
entry |5 pages
Beria, Lavrenti
entry |3 pages
Berlin
entry |3 pages
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
entry |4 pages
Berlin Crisis, 1958–63
entry |1 pages
Berlin Wall
entry |2 pages
Bevin, Ernest
entry |3 pages
Bidault, Georges
entry |3 pages
BogotÁ Riots
entry |2 pages
Bolivia
entry |3 pages
Brandt, Willy
entry |3 pages
Bretton Woods System
entry |4 pages
Brezhnev, Leonid
entry |2 pages
Brezhnev Doctrine
entry |2 pages
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
entry |2 pages
Bundy, Mcgeorge
entry |3 pages
Burma
entry |3 pages
Bush, George H. W.
entry |2 pages
Byrnes, James
letter |110 pages
C
entry |4 pages
Cambodia
entry |6 pages
Capitalism
entry |4 pages
Carter, James
entry |3 pages
Carter Doctrine
entry |4 pages
Castro, Fidel
entry |2 pages
Ceausescu, Nicolae
entry |3 pages
Central Intelligence Agency
entry |2 pages
Charter 77
entry |3 pages
Chernobyl Disaster
entry |2 pages
Chernyaev, Anatoly
entry |4 pages
Chiang Kai-Shek
entry |5 pages
Chile
entry |6 pages
China, People's Republic of
entry |2 pages
China Lobby
entry |4 pages
Christian Democracy
entry |3 pages
Church Committee
entry |5 pages
Churchill, Winston
entry |4 pages
Cinema
entry |4 pages
Civil Defense
entry |3 pages
Civil Rights Movement, United States
entry |3 pages
Cominform
entry |2 pages
Committee on the Present Danger
entry |7 pages
Communism
entry |4 pages
Communist Parties of Western Europe
entry |3 pages
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
entry |3 pages
Communist Party of the United States
entry |3 pages
Computer Technology
entry |3 pages
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
entry |4 pages
Congo, Democratic Republic of
entry |2 pages
Congress of Cultural Freedom
entry |3 pages
Consumerism
entry |5 pages
Containment
entry |3 pages
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
entry |3 pages
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
entry |3 pages
Council of Foreign Ministers
entry |5 pages
Cuba
entry |5 pages
Cuban Missile Crisis
entry |3 pages
Cultural Exchange
entry |4 pages
Cultural Revolution
entry |2 pages
Cyprus
entry |3 pages
Czechoslovakia
letter |53 pages
D
entry |2 pages
De Gasperi, Alcide
entry |4 pages
De Gaulle, Charles
entry |5 pages
De-Stalinization
entry |7 pages
Decolonization
entry |3 pages
Defense Condition (Defcon) Alert System
entry |6 pages
Democracy
entry |4 pages
Denazification
entry |3 pages
Deng Xiaoping
entry |5 pages
DÉtente
entry |3 pages
Development
entry |3 pages
Dimitrov, Georgi
entry |4 pages
Dissent
entry |3 pages
Djilas, Milovan
entry |3 pages
Dobrynin, Anatoly
entry |3 pages
Dominican Republic
entry |2 pages
Domino Theory
entry |2 pages
DubČEk, Alexander
entry |3 pages
Dulles, Allen
entry |4 pages
Dulles, John Foster
letter |37 pages
E
entry |3 pages
East German Uprising
entry |3 pages
Eden, Anthony
entry |4 pages
Education
entry |4 pages
Egypt
entry |4 pages
Eisenhower, Dwight
entry |4 pages
El Salvador
entry |3 pages
Ellsberg, Daniel
entry |4 pages
Embargoes
entry |2 pages
Encounter
entry |5 pages
Environment
entry |3 pages
Ethiopia and Somalia
entry |2 pages
Eurocommunism
entry |4 pages
European Defense Community
entry |4 pages
European Integration
entry |2 pages
Evil Empire Speech
letter |24 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
entry |3 pages
Finland
entry |3 pages
Finlandization
entry |3 pages
Flexible Response
entry |3 pages
Ford, Gerald
entry |3 pages
Ford Foundation
entry |3 pages
Fouchet Plan
entry |3 pages
Foundations
entry |6 pages
France
entry |2 pages
Fuchs, Klaus
entry |2 pages
[[Untitled]]
letter |59 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Gagarin, Yuri
entry |2 pages
Gandhi, Indira
entry |3 pages
Gaullism
entry |3 pages
Geneva Conference, 1954
entry |2 pages
Geneva Summit, 1955
entry |3 pages
Geneva Summit, 1985
entry |4 pages
German Social Democratic Party
entry |4 pages
German Unification
entry |4 pages
Germany, East (German Democratic Republic)
entry |4 pages
Germany, Occupied (1945–49)
entry |3 pages
Germany, West (Federal Republic Of Germany)
entry |2 pages
Ghana
entry |2 pages
Glasnost
entry |5 pages
Globalization
entry |2 pages
Goldwater, Barry
entry |5 pages
GomuŁka, WŁadysŁaw
entry |4 pages
Gorbachev, Mikhail
entry |3 pages
Great Leap Forward
entry |3 pages
Greece
entry |3 pages
Greene, Graham
entry |3 pages
Grenada
entry |2 pages
Gromyko, Andrei
entry |1 pages
GRU
entry |3 pages
Guatemala
entry |2 pages
Guevara, ernesto “che”
entry |3 pages
Guinea
entry |2 pages
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
entry |2 pages
Guyana
letter |26 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Hallstein Doctrine
entry |3 pages
Hammarskjold, Dag
entry |3 pages
Harmel Report
entry |2 pages
Havel, VÁClav
entry |1 pages
Helsinki Conference
entry |2 pages
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
entry |3 pages
Hiss, Alger
entry |4 pages
Ho Chi Minh
entry |2 pages
Hollywood Ten
entry |3 pages
Honecker, Erich
entry |3 pages
House un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
entry |4 pages
Human Rights
entry |3 pages
Hungarian Uprising
entry |3 pages
Hungary
letter |44 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Ideology
entry |4 pages
Imperialism
entry |5 pages
India
entry |4 pages
Indochina War, 1946–54
entry |4 pages
Indonesia
entry |3 pages
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty
entry |3 pages
International Law
entry |3 pages
International Monetary Fund
entry |3 pages
Interstate Highway System
entry |3 pages
Iran
entry |3 pages
Iran-Contra Scandal
entry |2 pages
Iran–Iraq War
entry |3 pages
Iranian Revolution
entry |4 pages
Iraq
entry |3 pages
Iron Curtain
entry |3 pages
Isolationism
entry |4 pages
Israel
entry |3 pages
Italy
letter |13 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jackson–Vanik Amendment
entry |4 pages
Japan
entry |3 pages
John Paul II
entry |4 pages
Johnson, Lyndon
entry |4 pages
Journalism
letter |45 pages
K
entry |2 pages
KÁDÁR, JÁNOS
entry |2 pages
Kahn, Herman
entry |2 pages
Kal 007
entry |4 pages
Kennan, George
entry |5 pages
Kennedy, John
entry |4 pages
Kennedy, Robert
entry |3 pages
KGB
entry |3 pages
Khmer Rouge
entry |2 pages
Khomeini, Ruhollah
entry |4 pages
Khrushchev, Nikita
entry |4 pages
Kim Il Sung
entry |5 pages
Kissinger, Henry
entry |2 pages
Kitchen Debate
entry |5 pages
Kohl, Helmut
entry |3 pages
Korea
entry |6 pages
Korean War
entry |2 pages
Korolev, Sergei
entry |3 pages
Kosygin, Aleksei
entry |2 pages
Kurchatov, Igor
letter |24 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Labour Party (British)
entry |5 pages
Laos
entry |3 pages
Lebanon
entry |3 pages
Lemay, Curtis
entry |3 pages
Lend-Lease
entry |3 pages
Liberalism
entry |2 pages
Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT)
entry |3 pages
Lippmann, Walter
entry |4 pages
Literature
entry |3 pages
Liu Shaoqi
entry |2 pages
Lumumba, Patrice
entry |2 pages
Lustration
letter |56 pages
M
entry |3 pages
McCarthy, Joseph
entry |2 pages
McCarthyism
entry |3 pages
Macmillan, Harold
entry |3 pages
Mcnamara, Robert
entry |3 pages
Mad
entry |2 pages
Malaysia
entry |2 pages
Malenkov, Georgi
entry |3 pages
Malta Summit
entry |3 pages
Manhattan Project
entry |4 pages
Mao Zedong
entry |2 pages
Marcuse, Herbert
entry |3 pages
Marshall, George
entry |5 pages
Marshall Plan
entry |4 pages
Marxism–Leninism
entry |2 pages
Mayaguez Incident
entry |3 pages
MendÈs France, Pierre
entry |4 pages
Mikoyan, Anastas
entry |2 pages
Military–Industrial Complex
entry |2 pages
Missile Gap
entry |3 pages
Mobutu, Joseph
entry |4 pages
Modernization Theory
entry |3 pages
Molotov, Vyacheslav
entry |3 pages
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
entry |3 pages
Mongolia
entry |2 pages
Moscow Summit, 1972
entry |4 pages
Multilateral Force
entry |3 pages
Multinational Corporations
entry |2 pages
Music
entry |1 pages
Mutually Assured Destruction
letter |51 pages
N
entry |2 pages
National Endowment for Democracy
entry |3 pages
National Liberation Front
entry |2 pages
National Liberation Front of Algeria
entry |3 pages
National Security Act of 1947
entry |3 pages
National Security Council
entry |4 pages
Nationalism
entry |3 pages
Nehru, Jawaharlal
entry |3 pages
Neoconservatism
entry |2 pages
New Frontier
entry |2 pages
New Left
entry |3 pages
New Look
entry |3 pages
Ngo Dinh Diem
entry |5 pages
Nicaragua
entry |3 pages
Nitze, Paul
entry |4 pages
Nixon, Richard
entry |4 pages
Non-Proliferation Treaty
entry |3 pages
Nongovernmental Forums
entry |3 pages
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
entry |2 pages
North Korea
entry |1 pages
North, Oliver
entry |3 pages
Nsc 68
entry |3 pages
Nuclear Planning Group
entry |4 pages
Nuclear Weapons, Strategic
entry |3 pages
Nuclear Weapons, Tactical
letter |16 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Oil
entry |3 pages
Oppenheimer, Robert
entry |4 pages
Organization Of American States
entry |2 pages
Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries
entry |4 pages
Organized Labor
entry |3 pages
Orwell, George
entry |3 pages
Ostpolitik
letter |48 pages
P
entry |4 pages
Pakistan
entry |3 pages
Palestinian Liberation Organization
entry |3 pages
Paris Charter
entry |3 pages
Peace Corps
entry |4 pages
Peace Movements
entry |2 pages
Peaceful Coexistence
entry |4 pages
Perestroika
entry |2 pages
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier
entry |4 pages
Persian Gulf Crisis and War
entry |2 pages
Peru
entry |2 pages
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
entry |7 pages
Poland
entry |3 pages
Polish Crisis
entry |2 pages
Politburo
entry |3 pages
Portugal
entry |4 pages
Potsdam Conference
entry |1 pages
Powers, Francis Gary
entry |2 pages
Prague Coup
entry |5 pages
Prague Spring
entry |3 pages
Pravda
entry |4 pages
Propaganda
letter |1 pages
Q
letter |38 pages
R
entry |4 pages
Radio
entry |2 pages
Rand Corporation
entry |2 pages
Rapacki Plan
entry |5 pages
Reagan, Ronald
entry |3 pages
Reagan Doctrine
entry |4 pages
Red Scare
entry |3 pages
Religion
entry |4 pages
ReykjavÍk Summit
entry |2 pages
Rhee, Syngman
entry |2 pages
Robeson, Paul
entry |3 pages
Rollback
entry |3 pages
Romania
entry |5 pages
Roosevelt, Franklin
entry |2 pages
Rosenberg Case
entry |2 pages
Rostow, Walt
entry |3 pages
Rusk, Dean
entry |3 pages
Rust, Matthias
letter |110 pages
S
entry |3 pages
Sakharov, Andrei
entry |3 pages
San Francisco Peace Treaty
entry |3 pages
Satellites
entry |3 pages
Schmidt, Helmut
entry |3 pages
Schumacher, Kurt
entry |3 pages
Schuman Plan
entry |4 pages
Science and Technology
entry |3 pages
Shakhnazarov, Georgi
entry |2 pages
Shevardnadze, Eduard
entry |4 pages
Show Trials
entry |3 pages
Shultz, George
entry |1 pages
Sihanouk
entry |4 pages
Sino-Soviet Alliance
entry |3 pages
Sino-Soviet Border Conflict
entry |3 pages
Six Day War, 1967
entry |2 pages
Slansky, Rudolf
entry |3 pages
Social Policy
entry |4 pages
Social Science
entry |4 pages
Socialism
entry |3 pages
Socialist International
entry |3 pages
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
entry |3 pages
Solidarity
entry |3 pages
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
entry |2 pages
Sonnenfeldt Doctrine
entry |5 pages
South Africa
entry |3 pages
South Korea
entry |3 pages
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
entry |5 pages
Soviet Military
entry |3 pages
Soviet Spy Ring
entry |6 pages
Soviet Union
entry |4 pages
Space Race
entry |4 pages
Spain
entry |2 pages
Special Forces, U.S. Army
entry |3 pages
Spheres of Influence
entry |3 pages
Sports
entry |3 pages
Sputnik Satellite
entry |3 pages
SS-20 Missiles
entry |4 pages
Stalin, Joseph
entry |2 pages
Stalin Note
entry |1 pages
Star Wars
entry |2 pages
Stasi
entry |4 pages
Strategic Air Command
entry |3 pages
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (Salt) I and II
entry |4 pages
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start)
entry |3 pages
Strategic Defense Initiative
entry |3 pages
Submarines, Nuclear
entry |3 pages
Suez Crisis
entry |2 pages
Sukarno
entry |4 pages
Summit Meetings, U.S.–Soviet
entry |3 pages
Syria
letter |44 pages
T
entry |4 pages
Taiwan
entry |3 pages
Taiwan Strait Crises (1954–55, 1958)
entry |3 pages
Tanzania
entry |2 pages
Television
entry |3 pages
Teller, Edward
entry |3 pages
Thailand
entry |4 pages
Thatcher, Margaret
entry |4 pages
Think Tanks
entry |3 pages
Third World
entry |3 pages
Tiananmen Square Massacre
entry |4 pages
Tito, Josef Broz
entry |2 pages
Togliatti, Palmiro
entry |3 pages
Totalitarianism
entry |3 pages
Tourism
entry |2 pages
Trieste
entry |4 pages
Truman, Harry
entry |4 pages
Truman Doctrine
entry |2 pages
Tupolev, Andrei
entry |4 pages
Turkey
entry |3 pages
Two Camps Concept
letter |18 pages
U
entry |3 pages
U-2 Incident
entry |3 pages
Ulbricht, Walter
entry |6 pages
United Kingdom
entry |4 pages
United Nations
entry |5 pages
United States Of America
letter |20 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Vance, Cyrus
entry |2 pages
Varga, Eugen
entry |3 pages
Venona
entry |2 pages
Vienna Summit of 1961
entry |2 pages
Viet Minh
entry |6 pages
Vietnam
entry |4 pages
Vietnam Conflict
entry |4 pages
Visual Arts
entry |2 pages
Vo Nguyen Giap
letter |7 pages
W
entry |3 pages
WaŁĘsa, Lech
entry |2 pages
War Powers Act
entry |3 pages
Warsaw Pact
entry |2 pages
World Congress of Intellectuals (For Peace)
letter |18 pages
Y
entry |3 pages
Yakovlev, Alexander
entry |3 pages
Yalta Conference
entry |3 pages
Yeltsin, Boris
entry |3 pages
Yemen
entry |3 pages
Yom Kippur War
entry |4 pages
Youth Organizations
entry |4 pages
Yugoslavia
letter |5 pages
Z
entry |2 pages
Zanzibar
entry |4 pages
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