For other uses see Cold War (disambiguation). United States President Ronald Reagan (left) and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in 1985.

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The Cold War (Russian: Kholodnaya vona) was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict military tension proxy wars and economic competition between the Communist World primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies and the powers of the Western world primarily the United States and its allies. Although the chief military forces never engaged in a major battle with each other they expressed the conflict through military coalitions strategic conventional force deployments extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable proxy wars espionage propaganda conventional and nuclear arms races appeals to neutral nations rivalry at sports events and technological competitions such as the Space Race.

After the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany the USSR and the US saw each other as profound enemies of their basic ways of life. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied annexing some and maintaining others as satellite states some of which were later consolidated as the Warsaw Pact (19551991). The US financed the recovery of western Europe and forged NATO a military alliance using containment of communism as a main strategy (Truman Doctrine).

The US funded the Marshall Plan to effectuate a more rapid post-War recovery of Europe while the Soviet Union would not let most Eastern Bloc members participate. Elsewhere in Latin America and Southeast Asia the USSR assisted and helped foster communist revolutions opposed by several Western countries and their regional allies; some they attempted to roll back with mixed results. Among the countries that the USSR supported in pro-communist revolt was Cuba led by Fidel Castro. The proximity of communist Cuba to the United States proved to be a centerpoint of the Cold War; the USSR placed multiple nuclear missiles in Cuba sparking heated tension with the Americans and leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 where full-scale nuclear war threatened. Some countries aligned with NATO and the Warsaw Pact and others formed the Non-Aligned Movement.

The Cold War featured periods of relative calm and of international high tension the Berlin Blockade (19481949) the Korean War (19501953) the Berlin Crisis of 1961 the Vietnam War (19591975) the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) the Soviet war in Afghanistan (19791989) and the Able Archer 83 NATO exercises in November 1983. Both sides sought dtente to relieve political tensions and deter direct military attack which would probably guarantee their mutual assured destruction with nuclear weapons.

In the 1980s under the Reagan Doctrine the United States increased diplomatic military and economic pressures on the Soviet Union at a time when the nation was already suffering economic stagnation. In the late 1980s Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika ("reconstruction" "reorganization" 1987) and glasnost ("openness" ca. 1985). The Cold War ended after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 leaving the United States as the dominant military power. Russia rejected Communism and was no longer regarded as a threat by the U.S. The Cold War and its events have had a significant impact on the world today and it is often referred to in popular culture especially films and novels about spies. Contents 1 Origins of the term 2 Background 3 End of World War II and post-war (194547) 3.1 Wartime conferences regarding post-war Europe 3.2 Potsdam Conference and defeat of Japan 3.3 Beginnings of the Eastern Bloc 3.4 Tensions build 4 Containment through the Korean War (194753) 4.1 Cominform and the TitoStalin split 4.2 Containment and the Truman Doctrine 4.3 Marshall Plan and Czechoslovak coup d'tat 4.4 Berlin Blockade and airlift 4.5 NATO beginnings and Radio Free Europe 4.6 Chinese Civil War and SEATO 4.7 Korean War 5 Crisis and escalation (195362) 5.1 Khrushchev Eisenhower and De-Stalinization 5.2 Warsaw Pact and Hungarian Revolution 5.3 Berlin Ultimatum and European integration 5.4 Worldwide competition 5.5 Sino-Soviet split space race ICBMs 5.6 Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs 5.7 Berlin Crisis of 1961 5.8 Cuban Missile Crisis and Khrushchev ouster 6 Confrontation through dtente (196279) 6.1 French NATO withdrawal 6.2 Czechoslovakia invasion 6.3 Brezhnev Doctrine 6.4 Third World escalations 6.5 Sino-American rapproachment 6.6 Nixon Brezhnev and dtente 6.7 Late 1970s deterioration of relations 7 Second Cold War (197985) 7.1 Soviet war in Afghanistan 7.2 Reagan and Thatcher 7.3 Polish Solidarity movement and martial law 7.4 Soviet and US military and economic issues 8 Final years (198591) 8.1 Gorbachev reforms 8.2 Thaw in relations 8.3 Faltering Soviet system 8.4 Soviet dissolution 9 Aftermath 10 Historiography 11 See also 12 Footnotes 13 References and further reading 13.1 Primary sources 14 External links Origins of the term

At the end of World War II English author and journalist George Orwell used the term Cold War in his essay You and the Atomic Bomb published October 19 1945 in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear warfare he warned of a peace that is no peace which he called a permanent cold war1 Orwell directly referred to that war as the ideological confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Western powers.2 Moreover in The Observer of March 10 1946 Orwell wrote that after the Moscow conference last December Russia began to make a cold war on Britain and the British Empire.3

The first use of the term to describe the postWorld War II geopolitical tensions between the USSR and its satellites and the United States and its western European allies is attributed to Bernard Baruch an American financier and presidential advisor.4 In South Carolina on April 16 1947 he delivered a speech (by journalist Herbert Bayard Swope)5 saying Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of a cold war.6 Newspaper reporter-columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide currency with the book Cold War (1947).7 Background Main article: Origins of the Cold War Further information: Red Scare American troops in Vladivostok August 1918 during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

There is disagreement among historians regarding the starting point of the Cold War. While most historians trace its origins to the period immediately following World War II others argue that it began towards the end of World War I although tensions between the Russian Empire other European countries and the United States date back to the middle of the 19th century.8 As a result of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (followed by its withdrawal from World War I) Soviet Russia found itself isolated in international diplomacy.9 Leader Vladimir Lenin stated that the Soviet Union was surrounded by a "hostile capitalist encirclement" and he viewed diplomacy as a weapon to keep Soviet enemies divided beginning with the establishment of the Soviet Comintern which called for revolutionary upheavals abroad.10 Subsequent leader Joseph Stalin who viewed the Soviet Union as a "socialist island" stated that the Soviet Union must see that "the present capitalist encirclement is replaced by a socialist encirclement."11 As early as 1925 Stalin stated that he viewed international politics as a bipolar world in which the Soviet Union would attract countries gravitating to socialism and capitalist countries would attract states gravitating toward capitalism while the world was in a period of "temporary stabilization of capitalism" preceding its eventual collapse.12 Various events before the Second World War had been demonstrative of mutual distrust and suspicion between the Western powers and the Soviet Union including the Bolsheviks' challenge to capitalism;13 Western support of the anti-Bolshevik White movement in the Russian Civil War;8 the 1926 Soviet funding of a British general workers strike causing Britain to break relations with the Soviet Union;14 Stalin's 1927 declaration of peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries "receding into the past";15 conspiratorial allegations during the 1928 Shakhty show trial of a planned British- and French-led coup d'tat;16 the American refusal to recognize the Soviet Union until 1933;17 and the Stalinist Moscow Trials of the Great Purge with allegations of British French Japanese and Nazi German espionage.18 As a result of the German invasion in June 1941 the Allies decided to help the Soviet Union; Britain signed a formal alliance and the United States made an informal agreement. In wartime the United States supplied both Britain and the Soviets through its Lend-Lease Program.19 However Stalin remained highly suspicious and believed that the British and the Americans had conspired to allow the Soviets to bear the brunt of the fighting against Nazi Germany. According to this view the Western Allies had deliberately delayed opening a second anti-German front in order to step in at the last moment and shape the peace settlement. Thus Soviet perceptions of the West left a strong undercurrent of tension and hostility between the Allied powers.20 End of World War II and post-war (194547) Wartime conferences regarding post-war Europe The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin 1945. Further information: Tehran Conference and Yalta Conference The Allies disagreed about how the European map should look and how borders would be drawn following the war.21 Each side held dissimilar ideas regarding the establishment and maintenance of post-war security.21 The western Allies desired a security system in which democratic governments were established as widely as possible permitting countries to peacefully resolve differences through international organizations.22 Given the Russian historical experiences of frequent invasions23 and the immense death toll (estimated at 27 million) and the destruction the Soviet Union sustained during World War II24 the Soviet Union sought to increase security by dominating the internal affairs of countries that bordered it.2125 The Western Allies were themselves deeply divided in their vision of the new post-war world. Roosevelt's goals military victory in both Europe and Asia the achievement of global American economic supremacy over the British Empire and the creation of a world peace organization were more global than Churchill's which were mainly centered on securing control over the Mediterranean ensuring the survival of the British Empire and the independence of Eastern European countries as a buffer between the Soviets and the United Kingdom.26 In the American view Stalin seemed a potential ally in accomplishing their goals whereas in the British approach Stalin appeared as the greatest threat to the fulfillment of their agenda. With the Soviets already occupying most of Eastern Europe Stalin was at an advantage and the two western leaders vied for his favors. The differences between Roosevelt and Churchill led to several separate deals with the Soviets. In October 1944 Churchill traveled to Moscow and agreed to divide the Balkans into respective spheres of influence and at Yalta Roosevelt signed a separate deal with Stalin in regard of Asia and refused to support Churchill on the issues of Poland and the Reparations.26 Post-war Allied occupation zones in Germany. Further Allied negotiations concerning the post-war balance took place at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 albeit this conference also failed to reach a firm consensus on the framework for a post-war settlement in Europe.27 In April 1945 both Churchill and new United States President Harry S. Truman opposed among other things the Soviets' decision to prop up the Lublin government the Soviet-controlled rival to the Polish government-in-exile whose relations with the Soviets were severed.28 Following the Allies' May 1945 victory the Soviets effectively occupied Eastern Europe27 while strong US and Western allied forces remained in Western Europe. In Allied-occupied Germany the Soviet Union United States Britain and France established zones of occupation and a loose framework for four-power control.29 The 1945 Allied conference in San Francisco established the multi-national United Nations (UN) for the maintenance of world peace but the enforcement capacity of its Security Council was effectively paralyzed by individual members' ability to use veto power.30 Accordingly the UN was essentially converted into an inactive forum for exchanging polemical rhetoric and the Soviets regarded it almost exclusively as a propaganda tribune.31 Potsdam Conference and defeat of Japan Winston Churchill Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference 1945. Further information: Potsdam Conference and Surrender of Japan At the Potsdam Conference which started in late July after Germany's surrender serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and eastern Europe.32 Moreover the participants' mounting antipathy and bellicose language served to confirm their suspicions about each others' hostile intentions and entrench their positions.33 At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon.34 Stalin was aware that the Americans were working on the atomic bomb and given that the Soviets' own rival program was in place he reacted to the news calmly. The Soviet leader said he was pleased by the news and expressed the hope that the weapon would be used against Japan.34 One week after the end of the Potsdam Conference the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shortly after the attacks Stalin protested to US officials when Truman offered the Soviets little real influence in occupied Japan.35 Beginnings of the Eastern Bloc Further information: Eastern Bloc Post-war territorial changes in Eastern Europe and the formation of the Eastern Bloc. During the final stages of World War II the Soviet Union laid the foundation for the Eastern Bloc by directly annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics that were initially (and effectively) ceded to it by Nazi Germany in the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. These included eastern Poland (incorporated into two different SSRs)36 Latvia (which became the Latvian SSR)373738 Estonia (which became the Estonian SSR)3738 Lithuania (which became the Lithuanian SSR)3738 part of eastern Finland (which became the Karelo-Finnish SSR) and eastern Romania (which became the Moldavian SSR).3940 The Eastern European territories liberated from the Nazis and occupied by the Soviet armed forces were added to the Eastern Bloc by converting them into satellite states41 such as East Germany42 the People's Republic of Poland the People's Republic of Bulgaria the People's Republic of Hungary43 the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic44 the People's Republic of Romania and the People's Republic of Albania.45 The Soviet-style regimes that arose in the Bloc not only reproduced Soviet command economies but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.46 In Asia the Red Army had overrun Manchuria in the last month of the war and went on to occupy the large swath of Korean territory located north of the 38th parallel.47 As part of consolidating Stalin's control over the Eastern Bloc the NKVD led by Lavrentiy Beria supervised the establishment of Soviet-style secret police systems in the Bloc that were supposed to crush anti-communist resistance.48 When the slightest stirrings of independence emerged in the Bloc Stalin's strategy matched that of dealing with domestic pre-war rivals: they were removed from power put on trial imprisoned and in several instances executed.49 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was concerned that given the enormous size of Soviet forces deployed in Europe at the end of the war and the perception that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unreliable there existed a Soviet threat to Western Europe.50 In AprilMay 1945 the British War Cabinet's Joint Planning Staff Committee developed Operation Unthinkable a plan "to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire".51 The plan however was rejected by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee as militarily unfeasible.50 Tensions build Further information: Long Telegram Iron Curtain and Restatement of Policy on Germany In February 1946 George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow helped to articulate the US government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets and became the basis for US strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War.52 That September the Soviet side produced the Novikov telegram sent by the Soviet ambassador to the US but commissioned and "co-authored" by Vyacheslav Molotov; it portrayed the US as being in the grip of monopoly capitalists who were building up military capability "to prepare the conditions for winning world supremacy in a new war".53 On September 6 1946 James F. Byrnes delivered a speech in Germany repudiating the Morgenthau Plan (a proposal to partition and de-industrialize post-war Germany) and warning the Soviets that the US intended to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.54 As Byrnes admitted a month later "The nub of our program was to win the German people ... it was a battle between us and Russia over minds ..."55 A few weeks after the release of this "Long Telegram" former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton Missouri.56 The speech called for an Anglo-American alliance against the Soviets whom he accused of establishing an "iron curtain" from "Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic".4157 Containment through the Korean War (194753) Main article: Cold War (19471953) Cominform and the TitoStalin split Further information: Cominform and TitoStalin split In September 1947 the Soviets created Cominform the purpose of which was to enforce orthodoxy within the international communist movement and tighten political control over Soviet satellites through coordination of communist parties in the Eastern Bloc.58 Cominform faced an embarrassing setback the following June when the TitoStalin split obliged its members to expel Yugoslavia which remained Communist but adopted a non-aligned position.59 Containment and the Truman Doctrine European military alliances. Main articles: Containment and Truman Doctrine By 1947 US president Harry S. Truman's advisers urged him to take immediate steps to counter the Soviet Union's influence citing Stalin's efforts (amid post-war confusion and collapse) to undermine the US by encouraging rivalries among capitalists that could precipitate another war.60 In February 1947 the British government announced that it could no longer afford to finance the Greek monarchical military regime in its civil war against communist-led insurgents. The American government's response to this announcement was the adoption of containment61 the goal of which was to stop the spread of communism. Truman delivered a speech that called for the allocation of $400 million to intervene in the war and unveiled the Truman Doctrine which framed the conflict as a contest between free peoples and totalitarian regimes.61 Even though the insurgents were helped by Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia17 US policymakers accused the Soviet Union of conspiring against the Greek royalists in an effort to expand Soviet influence.62 Enunciation of the Truman Doctrine marked the beginning of a US bipartisan defense and foreign policy consensus between Republicans and Democrats focused on containment and deterrence that weakened during and after the Vietnam War but ultimately held steady.6364 Moderate and conservative parties in Europe as well as social democrats gave virtually unconditional support to the Western alliance65 while European and American Communists paid by the KGB and involved in its intelligence operations66 adhered to Moscow's line although dissent began to appear after 1956. Other critiques of consensus politics came from anti-Vietnam War activists the CND and the nuclear freeze movement.67 Marshall Plan and Czechoslovak coup d'tat Map of Cold-War era Europe and the Near East showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. The red columns show the relative amount of total aid per nation. European economic alliances Main articles: Marshall Plan and Czechoslovak coup d'tat of 1948 In early 1947 Britain France and the United States unsuccessfully attempted to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union for a plan envisioning an economically self-sufficient Germany including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets.68 In June 1947 in accordance with the Truman Doctrine the United States enacted the Marshall Plan a pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate including the Soviet Union.68 The plan's aim was to rebuild the democratic and economic systems of Europe and to counter perceived threats to Europe's balance of power such as communist parties seizing control through revolutions or elections.69 The plan also stated that European prosperity was contingent upon German economic recovery.70 One month later Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 creating a unified Department of Defense the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Council. These would become the main bureaucracies for US policy in the Cold War.71 Stalin believed that economic integration with the West would allow Eastern Bloc countries to escape Soviet control and that the US was trying to buy a pro-US re-alignment of Europe.58 Stalin therefore prevented Eastern Bloc nations from receiving Marshall Plan aid.58 The Soviet Union's alternative to the Marshall plan which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with eastern Europe became known as the Molotov Plan (later institutionalized in January 1949 as the Comecon).17 Stalin was also fearful of a reconstituted Germany; his vision of a post-war Germany did not include the ability to rearm or pose any kind of threat to the Soviet Union.72 In early 1948 following reports of strengthening "reactionary elements" Soviet operatives executed a coup d'tat of 1948 in Czechoslovakia the only Eastern Bloc state that the Soviets had permitted to retain democratic structures.7374 The public brutality of the coup shocked Western powers more than any event up to that point set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.75 The twin policies of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan led to billions in economic and military aid for Western Europe Greece and Turkey. With US assistance the Greek military won its civil war71 The Italian Christian Democrats defeated the powerful Communist-Socialist alliance in the elections of 1948.76 Increases occurred in intelligence and espionage activities Eastern Bloc defections and diplomatic expulsions.77 Berlin Blockade and airlift C-47s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. Main article: Berlin Blockade The United States and Britain merged their western German occupation zones into "Bizonia" (1 January 1947 later "Trizonia" with the addition of France's zone April 1949).78 As part of the economic rebuilding of Germany in early 1948 representatives of a number of Western European governments and the United States announced an agreement for a merger of western German areas into a federal governmental system.79 In addition in accordance with the Marshall Plan they began to re-industrialize and rebuild the German economy including the introduction of a new Deutsche Mark currency to replace the old Reichsmark currency that the Soviets had debased.80 Shortly thereafter Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 12 May 1949) one of the first major crises of the Cold War preventing food materials and supplies from arriving in West Berlin.81 The United States Britain France Canada Australia New Zealand and several other countries began the massive "Berlin airlift" supplying West Berlin with food and other provisions.82 The Soviets mounted a public relations campaign against the policy change. Once again the East Berlin communists attempted to disrupt the Berlin municipal elections (as they have done in the 1946 elections)78 which were held on December 5 1948 and produced a turnout of 86.3% and an overwhelming victory for the non-Communist parties.83 The results effectively divided the city into East and West versions of its former self. 300000 Berliners demonstrated and urged the international airlift to continue84 and the US accidentally created "Operation Vittles" which supplied candy to German children.85 In May 1949 Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade.4886 NATO beginnings and Radio Free Europe Main articles: NATO Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Eastern Bloc information dissemination President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office. Britain France the United States Canada and eight other western European countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949 establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).48 That August the first Soviet atomic device was detonated in Semipalatinsk Kazakh SSR.17 Following Soviet refusals to participate in a German rebuilding effort set forth by western European countries in 19487987 the US Britain and France spearheaded the establishment of West Germany from the three Western zones of occupation in April 1949.3288 The Soviet Union proclaimed its zone of occupation in Germany the German Democratic Republic that October.32 Media in the Eastern Bloc was an organ of the state completely reliant on and subservient to the communist party with radio and television organizations being state-owned while print media was usually owned by political organizations mostly by the local communist party.89Soviet propaganda used Marxist philosophy to attack capitalism claiming labor exploitation and war-mongering imperialism were inherent in the system.90 Along with the broadcasts of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America to Eastern Europe91 a major propaganda effort begun in 1949 was Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty dedicated to bringing about the peaceful demise of the Communist system in the Eastern Bloc.92 Radio Free Europe attempted to achieve these goals by serving as a surrogate home radio station an alternative to the controlled and party-dominated domestic press.92 Radio Free Europe was a product of some of the most prominent architects of America's early Cold War strategy especially those who believed that the Cold War would eventually be fought by political rather than military means such as George F. Kennan.93 American policymakers including Kennan and John Foster Dulles acknowledged that the Cold War was in its essence a war of ideas.93 The United States acting through the CIA funded a long list of projects to counter the Communist appeal among intellectuals in Europe and the developing world.94 In the early 1950s the US worked for the rearmament of West Germany and in 1955 secured its full membership of NATO.32 In May 1953 Beria by then in a government post had made an unsuccessful proposal to allow the reunification of a neutral Germany to prevent West Germany's incorporation into NATO.95 Chinese Civil War and SEATO Further information: Chinese Civil War and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization In 1949 Mao's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China and the Soviet Union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed People's Republic of China.96 Chiang and his KMT government retreated to the island of Taiwan. Confronted with the Communist takeover of mainland China and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949 the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand the containment policy.17 In NSC-68 a secret 1950 document97 the National Security Council proposed to reinforce pro-Western alliance systems and quadruple spending on defense.17 United States officials moved thereafter to expand containment into Asia Africa and Latin America in order to counter revolutionary nationalist movements often led by communist parties financed by the USSR fighting against the restoration of Europe's colonial empires in South-East Asia and elsewhere.98 In the early 1950s (a period sometimes known as the "Pactomania") the US formalized a series of alliances with Japan Australia New Zealand Thailand and the Philippines (notably ANZUS in 1951 and SEATO in 1954) thereby guaranteeing the United States a number of long-term military bases.32 Korean War Main article: Korean War One of the more significant impacts of containment was the outbreak of the Korean War. In June 1950 Kim Il-Sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea.99 To Joseph Stalin's surprise17 the UN Security Council backed the defense of South Korea though the Soviets were then boycotting meetings in protest that Taiwan and not Communist China held a permanent seat on the Council.100 A UN force of personnel from South Korea the United States the United Kingdom Turkey Canada Australia France South Africa the Philippines the Netherlands Belgium New Zealand and other countries joined to stop the invasion.101 General Douglas MacArthur UN Command CiC (seated) observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley 15 September 1950. Among other effects the Korean War galvanised NATO to develop a military structure.102 Public opinion in countries involved such as Great Britain was divided for and against the war. Many feared an escalation into a general war with Communist China and even nuclear war. The strong opposition to the war often strained Anglo-American relations. For these reasons British officials sought a speedy end to the conflict hoping to unite Korea under United Nations auspices and withdrawal of all foreign forces.103 Even though the Chinese and North Koreans were exhausted by the war and were prepared to end it by late 1952 Stalin insisted that they continue fighting and the Armistice was approved only in July 1953 after Stalin's death.32 North Korean leader Kim Il Sung created a highly centralized and brutal dictatorship according himself unlimited power and generating a formidable cult of personality.104105 In the South the corrupt American-backed strongman Syngman Rhee ran an authoritarian government.106 Rhee was overthrown after popular protests against his rigged re-election victory in 1960 the South Korea's experienced a series of authoritarian rulers until democracy was reestablished after 1987.107 Crisis and escalation (195362) Main article: Cold War (19531962) Khrushchev Eisenhower and De-Stalinization In 1953 changes in political leadership on both sides shifted the dynamic of the Cold War.71 Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated president that January. During the last 18 months of the Truman administration the American defense budget had quadrupled and Eisenhower moved to reduce military spending by a third while continuing to fight the Cold War effectively.17 After the death of Joseph Stalin Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet leader following the deposition and execution of Lavrentiy Beria and the pushing aside of rivals Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov. On February 25 1956 Khrushchev shocked delegates to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party by cataloguing and denouncing Stalin's crimes.108 As part of a campaign of de-Stalinization he declared that the only way to reform and move away from Stalin's policies would be to acknowledge errors made in the past.71 On November 18 1956 while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow Khrushchev used his famous "Whether you like it or not history is on our side. We will bury you" expression shocking everyone present.109 He later claimed that he had not been talking about nuclear war but rather about the historically determined victory of communism over capitalism.110 In 1961 Khrushchev declared that even if the USSR was behind the West within a decade its housing shortage would disappear consumer goods would be abundant and within two decades the "construction of a communist society" in the USSR would be completed "in the main".111 Eisenhower's secretary of state John Foster Dulles initiated a "New Look" for the containment strategy calling for a greater reliance on nuclear weapons against US enemies in wartime.71 Dulles also enunciated the doctrine of "massive retaliation" threatening a severe US response to any Soviet aggression. Possessing nuclear superiority for example allowed Eisenhower to face down Soviet threats to intervene in the Middle East during the 1956 Suez Crisis.17 Warsaw Pact and Hungarian Revolution Main articles: Warsaw Pact and Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Map of the Warsaw Pact countries While Stalin's death in 1953 slightly relaxed tensions the situation in Europe remained an uneasy armed truce.112 The Soviets who had already created a network of mutual assistance treaties in the Eastern Bloc by 1949113 established a formal alliance therein the Warsaw Pact in 1955.32 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 occurred shortly after Khrushchev arranged the removal of Hungary's Stalinist leader Mtys Rkosi.114 In response to a popular uprising115 the new regime formally disbanded the secret police declared its intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and pledged to re-establish free elections. The Soviet army invaded.116 Thousands of Hungarians were arrested imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union117 and approximately 200000 Hungarians fled Hungary in the chaos.118 Hungarian leader Imre Nagy and others were executed following secret trials.119 From 1957 through 1961 Khrushchev openly and repeatedly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. He claimed that Soviet missile capabilities were far superior to those of the United States capable of wiping out any American or European city. However Khrushchev rejected Stalin's belief in the inevitability of war and declared his new goal was to be "peaceful coexistence".120 This formulation modified the Stalin-era Soviet stance where international class struggle meant the two opposing camps were on an inevitable collision course where Communism would triumph through global war; now peace would allow capitalism to collapse on its own121 as well as giving the Soviets time to boost their military capabilities122 which remained for decades until Gorbachev's later "new thinking" envisioning peaceful coexistence as an end in itself rather than a form of class struggle.123 The events in Hungary produced ideological fractures within the Communist parties of the world particularly in Western Europe with great decline in membership as many in both western and communist countries felt disillusioned by the brutal Soviet response.124 The communist parties in the west would never recover from the effect the Hungarian Revolution had on their membership a fact that was immediately recognized by some such as the Yugoslavian politician Milovan Djilas who shortly after the revolution was crushed said that "The wound which the Hungarian Revolution inflicted on communism can never be completely healed"124 America's pronouncements concentrated on American strength abroad and the success of liberal capitalism.125 However by the late 1960s the "battle for men's minds" between two systems of social organization that Kennedy spoke of in 1961 was largely over with tensions henceforth based primarily on clashing geopolitical objectives rather than ideology.126 Berlin Ultimatum and European integration Main article: Berlin Crisis of 1961 # Berlin Ultimatum The maximum territorial extent of countries in the world under Soviet influence after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 During November 1958 Khrushchev made an unsuccessful attempt to turn all of Berlin into an independent demilitarized "free city" giving the United States Great Britain and France a six-month ultimatum to withdraw their troops from the sectors they still occupied in West Berlin or he would transfer control of Western access rights to the East Germans. Khrushchev earlier explained to Mao Zedong that "Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream I squeeze on Berlin."127 NATO formally rejected the ultimatum in mid-December and Khrushchev withdrew it in return for a Geneva conference on the German question.128 More broadly one hallmark of the 1950s was the beginning of European integrationa fundamental by-product of the Cold War that Truman and Eisenhower promoted politically economically and militarily but which later administrations viewed ambivalently fearful that an independent Europe would forge a separate dtente with the Soviet Union which would use this to exacerbate Western disunity.129 Worldwide competition Main articles: 1953 Iranian coup d'tat 1954 Guatemalan coup d'tat Congo Crisis Decolonization and Wars of national liberation 1961 Soviet postage stamp demanding freedom for African nations. 1961 Soviet stamp commemorating Patrice Lumumba prime minister of the Republic of the Congo. Nationalist movements in some countries and regions notably Guatemala Indonesia and Indochina were often allied with communist groups or perceived in the West to be allied with communists.71 In this context the United States and the Soviet Union increasingly competed for influence by proxy in the Third World as decolonization gained momentum in the 1950s and early 1960s;130 additionally the Soviets saw continuing losses by imperial powers as presaging the eventual victory of their ideology.131 The United States made use of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to do away with a string of unfriendly Third World governments and to support allied ones.71 In 1953 President Eisenhower's Central Intelligence Agency implemented Operation Ajax a covert operation aimed at the overthrow of the Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The popularly-elected and non-aligned Mosaddegh had been a Middle Eastern nemesis of Britain since nationalizing the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951. Churchill told the United States that Mosaddegh was "increasingly turning towards communism" and was moving Iran towards the Soviet sphere.132133134135 The pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi assumed control as an autocratic monarch.136 The shah's policies included the banning of the communist Tudeh Party and general suppression of political dissent by SAVAK the shah's domestic security and intelligence agency. In Guatemala a CIA-backed military coup ousted the left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmn in 1954.137 The post-Arbenz government a military junta headed by Carlos Castillo Armas returned nationalized American property set up a National Committee of Defense Against Communism and decreed a Preventive Penal Law Against Communism at the request of the United States.138 In the Republic of the Congo newly independent from Belgium since June 1960 the CIA-cultivated President Joseph Kasa-Vubu ordered the dismissal of the democratically-elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the Lumumba cabinet in September; Lumumba called for Kasa-Vubu's dismissal instead.139 In the ensuing Congo Crisis the CIA-backed Colonel Mobutu quickly mobilized his forces to seize power through a military coup d'tat.139 In British Guiana the leftist People's Progressive Party (PPP) candidate Cheddi Jagan won the position of chief minister in a colonially-administered election in 1953 but was quickly forced to resign from power after Britain's suspension of the still-dependent nation's constitution.140 Embarrassed by the landslide electoral victory of Jagan's allegedly Marxist party the British imprisoned the PPP's leadership and maneuvered the organization into a divisive rupture in 1955 engineering a split between Jagan and his PPP colleagues.141 Jagan again won the colonial elections in 1957 and 1961; despite Britain's shift to a reconsideration of its view of the left-wing Jagan as a Soviet-style communist at this time the United States pressured the British to withhold Guyana's independence until an alternative to Jagan could be identified supported and brought into office.142 Worn down by the communist guerrilla war for Vietnamese independence and handed a watershed defeat by communist Vietminh rebels at the 1954 Battle of in Bin Ph the French accepted a negotiated abandonment of their colonial stake in Vietnam. Peace accords signed in Geneva left Vietnam divided between a pro-Soviet administration in North Vietnam and a pro-Western administration in South Vietnam at the 17th parallel north. Between 1954 and 1961 Eisenhower's United States sent economic aid and military advisers to strengthen South Vietnam's pro-Western regime against communist efforts to destabilize it.17 Many emerging nations of Asia Africa and Latin America rejected the pressure to choose sides in the East-West competition. In 1955 at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia dozens of Third World governments resolved to stay out of the Cold War.143 The consensus reached at Bandung culminated with the creation of the Belgrade-headquartered Non-Aligned Movement in 1961.71 Meanwhile Khrushchev broadened Moscow's policy to establish ties with India and other key neutral states. Independence movements in the Third World transformed the post-war order into a more pluralistic world of decolonized African and Middle Eastern nations and of rising nationalism in Asia and Latin America.17 Sino-Soviet split space race ICBMs Charting the progress of the Space Race in 1957-1975. Main articles: Sino-Soviet split and Space Race The period after 1956 was marked by serious setbacks for the Soviet Union most notably the breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance beginning the Sino-Soviet split. Mao had defended Stalin when Khrushchev attacked him after his death in 1956 and treated the new Soviet leader as a superficial upstart accusing him of having lost his revolutionary edge.144 After this Khrushchev made many desperate attempts to reconstitute the Sino-Soviet alliance but Mao considered it useless and denied any proposal.144 The Chinese-Soviet animosity spilled out in an intra-communist propaganda war.145 Further on the Soviets focused on a bitter rivalry with Mao's China for leadership of the global communist movement.146 On the nuclear weapons front the United States and the USSR pursued nuclear rearmament and developed long-range weapons with which they could strike the territory of the other.32 In August 1957 the Soviets successfully launched the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)147 and in October launched the first Earth satellite Sputnik.148 The launch of Sputnik inaugurated the Space Race. This culminated in the Apollo Moon landings which astronaut Frank Borman later described as "just a battle in the Cold War."149 Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs Main articles: Cuban Revolution and Bay of Pigs Invasion Flag of the 26th July Movement. In Cuba the 26th of July Movement seized power in January 1959 toppling President Fulgencio Batista whose unpopular regime had been denied arms by the Eisenhower administration.150 Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States continued for some time after Batista's fall but President Eisenhower deliberately left the capital to avoid meeting Cuba's young revolutionary leader Fidel Castro during the latter's trip to Washington in April leaving Vice President Richard Nixon to conduct the meeting in his place.151 Eisenhower's officials were not sure as to whether Castro was a communist but hostile toward the Cubans' efforts to decrease their economic reliance on the United States.152 In January 1961 just prior to leaving office Eisenhower formally severed relations with the Cuban government. In April 1961 the administration of newly-elected American President John F. Kennedy mounted an unsuccessful CIA-organized invasion of the island at Playa Girn in the Bay of Pigs  a failure that publicly humiliated the United States.152 Castro responded by embracing Marxism-Leninism and the Soviet Union pledged to provide support.152 Berlin Crisis of 1961 Soviet tanks face US tanks at Checkpoint Charlie on October 27 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 Main articles: Berlin Crisis of 1961 Berlin Wall and Eastern Bloc emigration and defection The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the last major incident in the Cold War regarding the status of Berlin and postWorld War II Germany. By the early 1950s the Soviet approach to restricting emigration movement was emulated by most of the rest of the Eastern Bloc.153 However hundreds of thousands of East Germans annually emigrated to West Germany through a "loophole" in the system that existed between East and West Berlin where the four occupying World War II powers governed movement.154 The emigration resulted in a massive "brain drain" from East Germany to West Germany of younger educated professionals such that nearly 20% of East Germany's population had migrated to West Germany by 1961.155 That June the Soviet Union issued a new ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Allied forces from West Berlin.156 The request was rebuffed and on August 13 East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall effectively closing the loophole.157 Cuban Missile Crisis and Khrushchev ouster Main articles: Cuban Project and Cuban Missile Crisis A U.S. Navy P-2 of VP-18 flying over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continuing to seek ways to oust Castro following the Bay of Pigs Kennedy and his administration experimented with various ways of covertly facilitating the overthrow of the Cuban government. Significant hopes were pinned on a covert program named the Cuban Project devised under the Kennedy administration in 1961. In February 1962 Khrushchev learned of the American plans regarding Cuba: a "Cuban project"  approved by the CIA and stipulating the overthrow of the Castro government in October possibly involving the American military  and yet one more Kennedy-ordered operation to assassinate Castro.158 Preparations to install Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba were undertaken in response.158 Alarmed Kennedy considered various reactions and ultimately responded to the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba with a naval blockade and presented an ultimatum to the Soviets. Khrushchev backed down from a confrontation and the Soviet Union removed the missiles in return for an American pledge not to invade Cuba again.159 The Cuban Missile Crisis (OctoberNovember 1962) brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before.160 It further demonstrated the concept of mutually assured destruction that neither nuclear power was prepared to use nuclear weapons fearing total destruction via nuclear retaliation.161 The aftermath of the crisis led to the first efforts in the nuclear arms race at nuclear disarmament and improving relations112 although the Cold War's first arms control agreement the Antarctic Treaty had come into force in 1961.162 In 1964 Khrushchev's Kremlin colleagues managed to oust him but allowed him a peaceful retirement.163 Accused of rudeness and incompetence he was also credited with ruining Soviet agriculture and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.163 Khrushchev had become an international embarrassment when he authorized construction of the Berlin Wall a public humiliation for Marxism-Leninism.163 Confrontation through dtente (196279) Main article: Cold War (19621979) The United States reached the moon in 1969a milestone in the space race. United States Navy F-4 Phantom II intercepts a Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 D aircraft in the early 1970s In the course of the 1960s and 1970s Cold War participants struggled to adjust to a new more complicated pattern of international relations in which the world was no longer divided into two clearly opposed blocs.71 From the beginning of the post-war period Western Europe and Japan rapidly recovered from the destruction of World War II and sustained strong economic growth through the 1950s and 1960s with per capita GDPs approaching those of the United States while Eastern Bloc economies stagnated.71164 As a result of the 1973 oil crisis combined with the growing influence of Third World alignments such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Non-Aligned Movement less-powerful countries had more room to assert their independence and often showed themselves resistant to pressure from either superpower.98 Meanwhile Moscow was forced to turn its attention inward to deal with the Soviet Union's deep-seated domestic economic problems.71 During this period Soviet leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin embraced the notion of dtente.71 French NATO withdrawal Main article: NATO # French withdrawal The unity of NATO was breached early in its history with a crisis occurring during Charles de Gaulle's presidency of France from 1958 onwards. De Gaulle protested at the United States' strong role in the organization and what he perceived as a special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. In a memorandum sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 17 September 1958 he argued for the creation of a tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the United States and the United Kingdom and also for the expansion of NATO's coverage to include geographical areas of interest to France most notably French Algeria where France was waging a counter-insurgency and sought NATO assistance.165 Considering the response given to be unsatisfactory de Gaulle began the development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and in 1966 withdrew from NATO's military structures and expelled NATO troops from French soil.166 Czechoslovakia invasion Main articles: Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia In 1968 a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring took place that included "Action Program" of liberalizations which described increasing freedom of the press freedom of speech and freedom of movement along with an economic emphasis on consumer goods the possibility of a multiparty government limiting the power of the secret police167168 and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.169 In answer to the Prague Spring the Soviet army together with most of their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia.170 The invasion was followed by a wave of emigration including an estimated 70000 Czechs initially fleeing with the total eventually reaching 300000.171 The invasion sparked intense protests from Yugoslavia Romania and China and from Western European communist parties.172 Brezhnev Doctrine Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon during Brezhnev's June 1973 visit to Washington; this was a high-water mark in dtente between the United States and the Soviet Union. Main article: Brezhnev Doctrine In September 1968 during a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party one month after the invasion of Czechoslovakia Brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty of any country attempting to replace Marxism-Leninism with capitalism. During the speech Brezhnev stated:169 When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries. The doctrine found its origins in the failures of Marxism-Leninism in states like Poland Hungary and East Germany which were facing a declining standard of living contrasting with the prosperity of West Germany and the rest of Western Europe.173 Third World escalations Further information: United States invasion of the Dominican Republic Indonesian killings of 19651966 Vietnam War 1973 Chilean coup d'tat Operation Condor Six Day War War of Attrition Yom Kippur War and Ogaden War Alexei Kosygin (left) next to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) during the Glassboro Summit Conference In late April 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson landed some 22000 troops in the Dominican Republic for a one-year occupation of the republic in an invasion codenamed Operation Power Pack citing the threat of the emergence of a Cuban-style revolution in Latin America.17 Presidential elections held in 1966 during the occupation handed victory to the conservative Joaqun Balaguer. Although Balaguer enjoyed a real base of support from sectors of the elites as well as peasants his formally running Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) opponent former President Juan Bosch did not actively campaign.174 The PRD's activists were violently harassed by the Dominican police and armed forces.174 In Indonesia the hardline anti-communist General Suharto wrested control of the state from his predecessor Sukarno in an attempt to establish a "New Order". From 1965 to 1966 the military orchestrated the mass killing of an estimated half-million members and sympathizers of the Indonesian Communist Party and other leftist organizations.175 Escalating the scale of American intervention in the ongoing conflict between Ng nh Dim's South Vietnamese government and the communist National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF) insurgents opposing it Johnson stationed some 575000 troops in Southeast Asia to defeat the NLF and their North Vietnamese allies in the Vietnam War but his costly policy weakened the US economy and by 1975 ultimately culminated in what most of the world saw as a humiliating defeat of the world's most powerful superpower at the hands of one of the world's poorest nations.17 In Chile the Socialist Party candidate Salvador Allende won the presidential election of 1970 becoming the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in the Americas.176 Backed by the CIA General Augusto Pinochet carried out a violent coup against the government on September 11 1973 and quickly consolidated all political power as a military dictator. Allende's reforms of the economy were rolled back and leftist opponents were killed or detained in internment camps under the Direccin de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA). Additionally the continent-wide South American Operation Condor  employed by dictators in Argentina Brazil Bolivia Chile Uruguay and Paraguay to suppress leftist dissent  was backed by the United States which (sometimes accurately) perceived Soviet or Cuban support behind these opposition movements.177 Displeasing the United States Jamaica began pursuing closer relations with the Cuban government as a result of Michael Manley's election in 1972.178 The United States' covert response included financing Manley's political opponents the instigation of mutiny in the Jamaican army and the fitting out of a private mercernary army against the Manley government.141 Violence ensued. Moreover the Middle East continued to be a source of contention. Egypt which received the bulk of its arms and economic assistance from the USSR was a troublesome client with a reluctant Soviet Union feeling obliged to assist in both the 1967 Six-Day War (with advisers and technicians) and the War of Attrition (with pilots and aircraft) against pro-Western Israel.179 Despite the beginning of an Egyptian shift from a pro-Soviet to a pro-American orientation in 1972 (under Egypt's new leader Anwar El Sadat)180 rumors of imminent Soviet intervention on the Egyptians' behalf during the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought about a massive American mobilization that threatened to wreck dtente.181 Although pre-Sadat Egypt had been the largest recipient of Soviet aid in the Middle East the Soviets were also successful in establishing close relations with communist South Yemen as well as the nationalist governments of Algeria and Iraq.180 Indirect Soviet assistance to the Palestinian side of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict included support for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).182 In Africa Somali army officers led by Mohamed Siad Barre carried out a bloodless coup in 1969 creating the socialist Somali Democratic Republic. The Soviet Union vowed to support Somalia. Four years later the pro-American Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a 1974 coup by the Derg a radical group of Ethiopian army officers led by the pro-Soviet Mengistu Haile Mariam who built up relations with the Cubans and Soviets.183 When fighting between the Somalis and Ethiopians broke out in the 1977-1978 Somali-Ethiopian Ogaden War Barre lost his Soviet support and allied with the United States. Cuban troops took part in the war on the side of the Ethiopians.183 The 1974 Portuguese Carnation Revolution against the authoritarian Estado Novo returned Portugal to a multi-party system and facilitated the independence of the Portuguese colonies Angola and East Timor. In Africa where Angolan rebels had waged a multi-faction independence war against Portuguese rule since 1961 a two-decade civil war replaced the anti-colonial struggle as fighting erupted between the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) backed by the Cubans and Soviets and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) backed by the United States the People's Republic of China and Mobutu's government in Zaire. The United States the apartheid government of South Africa and several other African governments also supported a third faction the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Without bothering to consult the Soviets in advance the Cuban government sent its troops to fight alongside the MPLA.183 Apartheid South Africa sent troops to support the UNITA but the MPLA bolstered by Cuban personnel and Soviet assistance eventually gained the upper hand.183 In southeast Asia the colony of East Timor unilaterally declared independence under the left-wing Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) in November 1975. Supported by Australia and the United States Suharto's Indonesia invaded in December  the beginning of an occupation that would last a quarter-century.184 Sino-American rapproachment Main article: 1972 Nixon visit to China Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong in 1972. As a result of the SinoSoviet split tensions along the ChineseSoviet border reached their peak in 1969 and United States President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War.185 The Chinese had sought improved relations with the Americans in order to gain advantage over the Soviets as well. In February 1972 Nixon announced a stunning rapprochement with Mao's China186 by traveling to Beijing and meeting with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. At this time the USSR achieved rough nuclear parity with the United States; meanwhile the Vietnam War both weakened America's influence in the Third World and cooled relations with Western Europe.187 Although indirect conflict between Cold War powers continued through the late 1960s and early 1970s tensions were beginning to ease.112 Nixon Brezhnev and dtente Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II treaty June 18 1979 in Vienna Main articles: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Helsinki Accords and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Following his China visit Nixon met with Soviet leaders including Brezhnev in Moscow.188 These Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resulted in two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I the first comprehensive limitation pact signed by the two superpowers189 and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles. These aimed to limit the development of costly anti-ballistic missiles and nuclear missiles.71 Nixon and Brezhnev proclaimed a new era of "peaceful coexistence" and established the groundbreaking new policy of dtente (or cooperation) between the two superpowers. Meanwhile Brezhnev attempted to revive the Soviet economy which was declining in part because of heavy military expenditures.17 Between 1972 and 1974 the two sides also agreed to strengthen their economic ties17 including agreements for increased trade. As a result of their meetings dtente would replace the hostility of the Cold War and the two countries would live mutually.188 Meanwhile these developments coincided with the "Ostpolitik" of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.172 Other agreements were concluded to stabilize the situation in Europe culminating in the Helsinki Accords signed at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe in 1975.190 Late 1970s deterioration of relations In the 1970s the KGB led by Yuri Andropov continued to persecute distinguished Soviet personalities such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov who were criticising the Soviet leadership in harsh terms.191 Indirect conflict between the superpowers continued through this period of dtente in the Third World particularly during political crises in the Middle East Chile Ethiopia and Angola.192 Although President Jimmy Carter tried to place another limit on the arms race with a SALT II agreement in 1979193 his efforts were undermined by the other events that year including the Iranian Revolution and the Nicaraguan Revolution which both ousted pro-US regimes and his retaliation against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December.17 Second Cold War (197985) Main article: Cold War (19791985) The term second Cold War has been used by some historians to refer to the period of intensive reawakening of Cold War tensions and conflicts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Tensions greatly increased between the major powers with both sides becoming more militaristic.13 Soviet war in Afghanistan Main article: Soviet war in Afghanistan During December 1979 approximately 75000 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in order to support the Marxist government formed by ex-Prime-minister Nur Muhammad Taraki assassinated that September by one of his party rivals.194 In a post-Afghan War interview conducted by French weekly newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated that the president had already signed a directive to provide aid to the anti-communist mujahideen insurgency against the pro-Soviet PDPA government of Afghanistan in July some six months prior to the Soviet military intervention.195 Asked by the interviewer if he had regrets given that "the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan" and that "people didn't believe them" Brzezinski responded: Regret what The secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter: we now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam...196 Carter responded to the Soviet intervention by withdrawing the SALT II treaty from the Senate imposing embargoes on grain and technology shipments to the USSR and demanding a significant increase in military spending and further announced that the United States would boycott the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. He described the Soviet incursion as "the most serious threat to the peace since the Second World War".197 Reagan and Thatcher Further information: Reagan Doctrine Thatcher's Ministry meets with Reagan's Cabinet at the White House 1981 In January 1977 four years prior to becoming president Ronald Reagan bluntly stated in a conversation with Richard V. Allen his basic expectation in relation to the Cold War. "My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple and some would say simplistic" he said. "It is this: We win and they lose. What do you think of that"198 In 1980 Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election vowing to increase military spending and confront the Soviets everywhere.199 Both Reagan and new British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher denounced the Soviet Union and its ideology. Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and predicted that Communism would be left on the "ash heap of history".200 Despite anti-American sentiment in Iran as a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the pro-American shah and an accompanying breakdown in relations with the new Ayatollah Khomeini government over the Iran hostage crisis the Reagan administration reached out to the anti-communist Khomeini in an effort to recruit the theocracy into the American camp in the early 1980s. Then-CIA director William Casey described the Khomeini government as "faltering and possibly moving toward a moment of truth... The U.S. has almost no cards to play; the USSR has many."201 One mode of American support for the Iranians consisted of secret arms sales. In 1983 the CIA passed an extensive list of Iranian communists and other leftists secretly working in the Iranian government to Khomeini's administration.202 A Tower Commission report later observed that the list was utilized to take "measures including mass executions that virtually eliminated the pro-Soviet infrastructure in Iran."202 By early 1985 Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine  which in addition to containment formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.203 Besides continuing Carters' policy of supporting the Islamic opponents of the Soviet Union and the Soviet-backed PDPA government in Afghanistan the CIA also sought to weaken the Soviet Union itself by promoting political Islam in the majority-Muslim Central Asian Soviet Union.204 Additionally the CIA encouraged anti-communist Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to train Muslims from around the world to participate in the jihad against the Soviet Union.204 Polish Solidarity movement and martial law Main articles: Solidarity (Polish trade union) and Martial law in Poland Further information: Soviet reaction to the Polish crisis of 19801981 Pope John Paul II provided a moral focus for anti-communism; a visit to his native Poland in 1979 stimulated a religious and nationalist resurgence centered on the Solidarity movement that galvanized opposition and may have led to his attempted assassination two years later.205 In December 1981 Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski reacted to the crisis by imposing a period of martial law. Reagan imposed economic sanctions on Poland in response.206 Mikhail Suslov the Kremlin's top ideologist advised Soviet leaders not to intervene if Poland fell under the control of Solidarity for fear it might lead to heavy economic sanctions representing a catastrophe for the Soviet economy.206 Soviet and US military and economic issues Further information: Brezhnev stagnation Strategic Defense Initiative RSD-10 Pioneer and MGM-31 Pershing US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles 19452006 Delta 183 launch vehicle lifts off carrying the Strategic Defense Initiative sensor experiment "Delta Star". Moscow had built up a military that consumed as much as 25 percent of the Soviet Union's gross national product at the expense of consumer goods and investment in civilian sectors.207 Soviet spending on the arms race and other Cold War commitments both caused and exacerbated deep-seated structural problems in the Soviet system which saw at least a decade of economic stagnation during the late Brezhnev years. Soviet investment in the defense sector was not driven by military necessity but in large part by the interests of massive party and state bureaucracies dependent on the sector for their own power and privileges.208 The Soviet Armed Forces became the largest in the world in terms of the numbers and types of weapons they possessed in the number of troops in their ranks and in the sheer size of their militaryindustrial base.209 However the quantitative advantages held by the Soviet military often concealed areaswhich where the Eastern Bloc dramatically lagged behind the West.210 After ten year old American Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov expressing her fear of nuclear war Andropov invited Smith to the Soviet Union. By the early 1980s the USSR had built up a military arsenal and army surpassing that of the United States. Soon after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan president Carter began massively building up the United States military. This buildup was accelerated by the Reagan administration which increased the military spending from 5.3 percent of GNP in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 1986211 the largest peacetime defense buildup in United States history.212 Tensions continued intensifying in the early 1980s when Reagan revived the B-1 Lancer program that was canceled by the Carter administration produced LGM-118 Peacekeepers213 installed US cruise missiles in Europe and announced his experimental Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed "Star Wars" by the media a defense program to shoot down missiles in mid-flight.214 With the background of a buildup in tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States and the deployment of Soviet RSD-10 Pioneer ballistic missiles targeting Western Europe NATO decided under the impetus of the Carter presidency to deploy MGM-31 Pershing and cruise missiles in Europe primarily West Germany.215 This deployment would have placed missiles just 10 minutes' striking distance from Moscow.216 After Reagan's military buildup the Soviet Union did not respond by further building its military217 because the enormous military expenses along with inefficient planned manufacturing and collectivized agriculture were already a heavy burden for the Soviet economy.218 At the same time Reagan persuaded Saudi Arabia to increase oil production219 even as other non-OPEC nations were increasing production.220 These developments contributed to the 1980s oil glut which affected the Soviet Union as oil was the main source of Soviet export revenues.207218 Issues with command economics221 oil prices decreases and large military expenditures gradually brought the Soviet economy to stagnation.218 On September 1 1983 the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 a Boeing 747 with 269 people aboard including sitting Congressman Larry McDonald when it violated Soviet airspace just past the west coast of Sakhalin Island near Moneron Island an act which Reagan characterized as a "massacre". This act increased support for military deployment overseen by Reagan which stood in place until the later accords between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.222 The Able Archer 83 exercise in November 1983 a realistic simulation of a coordinated NATO nuclear release has been called most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis as the Soviet leadership keeping a close watch on it considered a nuclear attack to be imminent.223 US domestic public concerns about intervening in foreign conflicts persisted from the end of the Vietnam War.224 The Reagan administration emphasized the use of quick low-cost counter-insurgency tactics to intervene in foreign conflicts.224 In 1983 the Reagan administration intervened in the multisided Lebanese Civil War invaded Grenada bombed Libya and backed the Central American Contras anti-communist paramilitaries seeking to overthrow the Soviet-aligned Sandinista government in Nicaragua.98 While Reagan's interventions against Grenada and Libya were popular in the United States his backing of the Contra rebels was mired in controversy.225 Meanwhile the Soviets incurred high costs for their own foreign interventions. Although Brezhnev was convinced in 1979 that the Soviet war in Afghanistan would be brief Muslim guerrillas aided by the US and other countries waged a fierce resistance against the invasion.226 The Kremlin sent nearly 100000 troops to support its puppet regime in Afghanistan leading many outside observers to dub the war "the Soviets' Vietnam".226 However Moscow's quagmire in Afghanistan was far more disastrous for the Soviets than Vietnam had been for the Americans because the conflict coincided with a period of internal decay and domestic crisis in the Soviet system. A senior US State Department official predicted such an outcome as early as 1980 positing that the invasion resulted in part from a "domestic crisis within the Soviet system. ... It may be that the thermodynamic law of entropy has ... caught up with the Soviet system which now seems to expend more energy on simply maintaining its equilibrium than on improving itself. We could be seeing a period of foreign movement at a time of internal decay".227228 The Soviets were not helped by their aged and sclerotic leadership either: Brezhnev virtually incapacitated in his last years was succeeded by Andropov and Chernenko neither of whom lasted long. After Chernenko's death Reagan was asked why he had not negotiated with Soviet leaders. Reagan quipped "They keep dying on me".229 Final years (198591) Main article: Cold War (19851991) Further information: Reagan Doctrine Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House 1987 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. Gorbachev reforms Further information: Mikhail Gorbachev perestroika and glasnost By the time the comparatively youthful Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985200 the Soviet economy was stagnant and faced a sharp fall in foreign currency earnings as a result of the downward slide in oil prices in the 1980s.230 These issues prompted Gorbachev to investigate measures to revive the ailing state.230 An ineffectual start led to the conclusion that deeper structural changes were necessary and in June 1987 Gorbachev announced an agenda of economic reform called perestroika or restructuring.231 Perestroika relaxed the production quota system allowed private ownership of businesses and paved the way for foreign investment. These measures were intended to redirect the country's resources from costly Cold War military commitments to more productive areas in the civilian sector.231 Despite initial skepticism in the West the new Soviet leader proved to be committed to reversing the Soviet Union's deteriorating economic condition instead of continuing the arms race with the West.112232 Partly as a way to fight off internal opposition from party cliques to his reforms Gorbachev simultaneously introduced glasnost or openness which increased freedom of the press and the transparency of state institutions.233 Glasnost was intended to reduce the corruption at the top of the Communist Party and moderate the abuse of power in the Central Committee.234 Glasnost also enabled increased contact between Soviet citizens and the western world particularly with the United States contributing to the accelerating dtente between the two nations.235 Thaw in relations Further information: Reykjavk Summit Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty START I and Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany In response to the Kremlin's military and political concessions Reagan agreed to renew talks on economic issues and the scaling-back of the arms race.236 The first was held in November 1985 in Geneva Switzerland.236 At one stage the two men accompanied only by an interpreter agreed in principle to reduce each country's nuclear arsenal by 50 percent.237 A second Reykjavk Summit was held in Iceland. Talks went well until the focus shifted to Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative which Gorbachev wanted eliminated: Reagan refused.238 The negotiations failed but the third summit in 1987 led to a breakthrough with the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The INF treaty eliminated all nuclear-armed ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5500 kilometers (300 to 3400 miles) and their infrastructure.239 EastWest tensions rapidly subsided through the mid-to-late 1980s culminating with the final summit in Moscow in 1989 when Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush signed the START I arms control treaty.240 During the following year it became apparent to the Soviets that oil and gas subsidies along with the cost of maintaining massive troops levels represented a substantial economic drain.241 In addition the security advantage of a buffer zone was recognised as irrelevant and the Soviets officially declared that they would no longer intervene in the affairs of allied states in Eastern Europe.242 In 1989 Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan243 and by 1990 Gorbachev consented to German reunification241 the only alternative being a Tiananmen scenario.244 When the Berlin Wall came down Gorbachev's "Common European Home" concept began to take shape.245 On December 3 1989 Gorbachev and Reagan's successor George H. W. Bush declared the Cold War over at the Malta Summit;246 a year later the two former rivals were partners in the Gulf War against Iraq.247 Faltering Soviet system Further information: Economy of the Soviet Union Revolutions of 1989 and Baltic Way The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By 1989 the Soviet alliance system was on the brink of collapse and deprived of Soviet military support the Communist leaders of the Warsaw Pact states were losing power.243 In the USSR itself glasnost weakened the bonds that held the Soviet Union together242 and by February 1990 with the dissolution of the USSR looming the Communist Party was forced to surrender its 73-year-old monopoly on state power.248 At the same time freedom of press and dissent allowed by glasnost and the festering "nationalities question" increasingly led the Union's component republics to declare their autonomy from Moscow with the Baltic states withdrawing from the Union entirely.249 The 1989 revolutionary wave that swept across Central and Eastern Europe overthrew the Soviet-style communist states such as Poland Hungary Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria250 Romania being the only Eastern-bloc country to topple its communist regime violently and execute its head of state.251 Soviet dissolution Further information: January 1991 events in Latvia 1991 Soviet coup d'tat attempt History of the Soviet Union (19821991) and Dissolution of the Soviet Union Commonwealth of Independent States the official end of the Soviet Union Gorbachev's permissive attitude toward Eastern Europe did not initially extend to Soviet territory; even Bush who strove to maintain friendly relations condemned the January 1991 killings in Latvia and Lithuania privately warning that economic ties would be frozen if the violence continued.252 The USSR was fatally weakened by a failed coup and a growing number of Soviet republics particularly Russia who threatened to secede from the USSR. The Commonwealth of Independent States created on December 21 1991 is viewed as a successor entity to the Soviet Union but according to Russia's leaders its purpose was to "allow a civilized divorce" between the Soviet Republics and is comparable to a loose confederation.253 The USSR was declared officially dissolved on December 25 1991.254 Aftermath Main article: Effects of the Cold War NATO/CSTO NATO has expanded eastwards into the former Warsaw Pact and former parts of the Soviet Union since the end of the Cold War. Following the Cold War Russia cut military spending dramatically creating a wrenching adjustment as the military-industrial sector had previously employed one of every five Soviet adults255 meaning its dismantling left millions throughout the former Soviet Union unemployed.255 After Russia embarked on capitalist economic reforms in the 1990s it suffered a financial crisis and a recession more severe than the US and Germany had experienced during the Great Depression.256 Russian living standards have worsened overall in the postCold War years although the economy has resumed growth since 1999.256 The aftermath of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.13 After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the postCold War world is widely considered as unipolar with the United States the sole remaining superpower.257258259 The Cold War defined the political role of the United States in the postWorld War II world: by 1989 the US held military alliances with 50 countries and had 526000260 troops posted abroad in dozens of countries with 326000 in Europe (two-thirds of which in west Germany)261 and about 130000 in Asia (mainly Japan and South Korea).260 The Cold War also marked the apex of peacetime military-industrial complexes especially in the USA and large-scale military funding of science.262 These complexes though their origins may be found as early as the 19th century have grown considerably during the Cold War. The military-industrial complexes have great impact on their countries and help shape their society policy and foreign relations.263 Military expenditures by the US during the Cold War years were estimated to have been $8 trillion while nearly 100000 Americans lost their lives in the Korean War and Vietnam War.264 Although the loss of life among Soviet soldiers is difficult to estimate as a share of their gross national product the financial cost for the Soviet Union was far higher than that incurred by the United States.265 In addition to the loss of life by uniformed soldiers millions died in the superpowers' proxy wars around the globe most notably in Southeast Asia.266 Most of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War; interstate wars ethnic wars revolutionary wars as well as refugee and displaced persons crises have declined sharply in the postCold War years.267 The aftermath of Cold War conflict however is not always easily erased as many of the economic and social tensions that were exploited to fuel Cold War competition in parts of the Third World remain acute.13 The breakdown of state control in a number of areas formerly ruled by Communist governments has produced new civil and ethnic conflicts particularly in the former Yugoslavia.13 In Eastern Europe the end of the Cold War has ushered in an era of economic growth and a large increase in the number of liberal democracies while in other parts of the world such as Afghanistan independence was accompanied by state failure.13 Historiography Main article: Historiography of the Cold War As soon as the term "Cold War" was popularized to refer to post-war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union interpreting the course and origins of the conflict has been a source of heated controversy among historians political scientists and journalists.268 In particular historians have sharply disagreed as to who was responsible for the breakdown of SovietUS relations after the Second World War; and whether the conflict between the two superpowers was inevitable or could have been avoided.269 Historians have also disagreed on what exactly the Cold War was what the sources of the conflict were and how to disentangle patterns of action and reaction between the two sides.13 Although explanations of the origins of the conflict in academic discussions are complex and diverse several general schools of thought on the subject can be identified. Historians commonly speak of three differing approaches to the study of the Cold War: "orthodox" accounts "revisionism" and "post-revisionism".262 "Orthodox" accounts place responsibility for the Cold War on the Soviet Union and its expansion into Eastern Europe.262 "Revisionist" writers place more responsibility for the breakdown of post-war peace on the United States citing a range of US efforts to isolate and confront the Soviet Union well before the end of World War II.262 "Post-revisionists" see the events of the Cold War as more nuanced and attempt to be more balanced in determining what occurred during the Cold War.262 Much of the historiography on the Cold War weaves together two or even all three of these broad categories.32 See also Cold War portal Index of Soviet Union-related articles American imperialism Canada in the Cold War Cold war (general term) Culture during the Cold War Danube River Conference of 1948 List of United States Soviet Union summits McCarthyism PostWorld War II economic expansion Soviet Empire Timeline of events in the Cold War Unethical human experimentation in the United States World War III Footnotes Kort Michael (2001). 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Retrieved on June 14 2008. Nashel Jonathan (1999). "Cold War (194591): Changing Interpretations (entire chapter)". In Whiteclay Chambers John. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195071980. http://books.google.com/booksidxtMKHgAACAAJ&dqThe+Oxford+Companion+to+American+Military+History. Retrieved 2008-06-16.  Brinkley pp. 798799 References and further reading Main article: List of primary and secondary sources on the Cold War Davis Simon and Joseph Smith. The A to Z of the Cold War (Scarecrow 2005) encyclopedia focused on military aspects Friedman Norman (2007). The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591142873.  Gaddis John Lewis (1990). Russia the Soviet Union and the United States. An Interpretative History. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0075572583.  Gaddis John Lewis (1997). We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198780702.  Gaddis John Lewis (2005). The Cold War: A New History. Penguin Press. ISBN 1594200629.  Garthoff Raymond (1994). Dtente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0815730411.  Haslam Jonathan. Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Yale University Press; 2011) 512 pages Hoffman David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2010) Hopkins Michael F. "Continuing Debate and New Approaches in Cold War History" Historical Journal Dec 2007 Vol. 50 Issue 4 pp 913934 historiography Johnston Gordon. "Revisiting the cultural Cold War" Social History Aug 2010 Vol. 35 Issue 3 pp 290307 Lthi Lorenz M (2008). The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691135908.  LaFeber Walter (2002). America Russia and the Cold War 1945-2002. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072849037.  Leffler Melvyn (1992). A Preponderance of Power: National Security the Truman Administration and the Cold War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804722188.  Leffler Melvyn P. and Odd Arne Westad eds. The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 vol 2010) 2000pp; new essays by leading scholars Lewkowicz Nicolas (2010). The German Question and the International Order 1943-48. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230248120.  Lundestad Geir (2005). East West North South: Major Developments in International Politics since 1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 1412907489.  McMahon Robert (2003). The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192801783.  Lthi Lorenz M (2008). The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691135908.  Malkasian Carter (2001). The Korean War: Essential Histories. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841762822.  Mastny Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet insecurity: the Stalin years (1996) online edition Fedorov Alexander (2011). Russian Image on the Western Screen: Trends Stereotypes Myths Illusions. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3843393300.  Miller Roger Gene (2000). To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0890969671.  Njolstad Olav (2004). The Last Decade of the Cold War. Routledge. ISBN 071468371X.  Nolan Peter (1995). China's Rise Russia's Fall. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312127146.  Pearson Raymond (1998). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. Macmillan. ISBN 0312174071.  Plokhy S.M. (2010). Yalta: The Price of Peace. Penguin. ISBN 0670021415.  Porter Bruce; Karsh Efraim (1984). The USSR in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521310644.  Puddington Arch (2003). Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813190452.  Roberts Geoffrey (2006). Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War 19391953. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300112041.  Stone Norman (2010). The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War. Basic Books Press. ISBN 0465020437.  Taubman William (2004). Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393324842. ; Pulitzer Prize Tompson William J (1997). Khrushchev: A Political Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0312163606.  Tucker Spencer ed. Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political Social and Military History (5 vol. 2008) world coverage Walker Martin. The Cold War: A History (1995) British perspective Wettig Gerhard (2008). Stalin and the Cold War in Europe. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742555429.  Zubok Vladislav; Pleshakov Constantine (1996). Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674455312.  Zubok Vladislav M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2008) Primary sources Andrew Christopher; Mitrokhin Vasili (2000). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. ISBN 0585418284.  Dobrynin Anatoly (2001). In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0295980818.  Hanhimaki Jussi and Odd Arne Westad eds. The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (Oxford University Press 2003). ISBN 0-19-927280-8. Sakwa Richard (1999). The rise and fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991. Routledge. ISBN 0415122902.  Cardona Luis (2007). Cold War KFA. 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