Cold War policies
Containment and détente
Cold War policies are the strategies, doctrines, and actions that characterized the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union from roughly 1947 to 1991.
These include containment, deterrence, proxy wars, and the arms race.
The term now applies to any approach echoing that era's tensions: The administration's Cold War policies toward China drew criticism.
- arms raceEscalating weapons accumulation between nations
- NATOWestern defense organization
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- cultural exchangesSharing traditions between societies
- nuclear deterrencePreventing war through retaliation threat
Warsaw Pact · kitchen debate · peace talks · brinkmanship · embargoes · covert operations · spy planes · espionage networks · mutually assured destruction · trade barriers · industrial espionage · secret police · red scare · missile defense systems · duck and cover · nuclear fallout · diplomatic sanctions · media censorship
Cold War policieshot war
Active armed combat
total war · armed conflict · shooting war · conventional warfare · military engagement
Cold War policiesdétente
Easing of strained relations
rapprochement · peaceful coexistence · thaw · entente · diplomatic engagement
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