Cold War era
Iron Curtain decades
The Cold War era spans roughly 1947 to 1991—the period of geopolitical tension between the United States and Soviet Union following World War II.
The phrase evokes nuclear anxiety, espionage, proxy wars, and ideological competition between capitalism and communism: Cold War era spy novels, Cold War era bunkers.
It often describes technology, architecture, or attitudes from that period.
- Vietnam WarCold-era Indochina military engagement
- communismCollective ownership system
- brinkmanshipPushing conflicts to disaster's threshold
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- Warsaw PactSoviet-led military alliance
McCarthyism · Eastern Bloc · NATO · superpower rivalry · proxy war · Bay of Pigs · arms race · spy novels · secret agent · Cuban Missile Crisis · Korean War · containment policy · fallout shelters · bomb shelter · Iron Curtain · Sputnik · glasnost · domino theory
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- erasepoch, age, bronze age, period, Renaissance Italy
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- temporal settingspast, present, future, ancient times, Renaissance
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- British ErasVictorian age, Tudor period, Regency period, medieval period, interregnum
Cold War erahot war
Active armed combat
total war · shooting war · armed conflict · active combat · World War II
Cold War eradétente
Easing of strained relations
peaceful coexistence · international cooperation · thaw · rapprochement · entente