Cold War politics
East-West ideological tensions
Cold War politics refers to the ideological, diplomatic, and strategic maneuvering between the United States and Soviet Union from roughly 1947 to 1991.
The term extends to any situation where opposing sides engage in indirect confrontation—proxy conflicts, propaganda, espionage, and brinkmanship—rather than direct warfare: The office rivalry has devolved into Cold War politics.
- anti-communismOpposition to Marxist ideology
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
- show trialsPropaganda-driven mock prosecutions
ideology · domino theory · brinkmanship · nationalism · proxy wars · capitalism · KGB · nuclear arms race · nuclear fallout · McCarthyism · Warsaw Pact · Berlin Wall · disarmament · Marxism-Leninism · totalitarianism · double agents · CIA · spy networks
- Australian HistoryCaptain Cook, Commonwealth, federation, explorers, Liberal Party
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Italian RepublicChristian Democrats, coalition governments, coalition government, PCI, PSI
Cold War politicshot war
Active armed combat
shooting war · armed conflict · total war · conventional warfare · declared war
Cold War politicsdétente
Easing of strained relations
rapprochement · peaceful coexistence · international cooperation · entente · multilateralism