Cold War tensions
US-Soviet nuclear anxiety
Cold War tensions refers to the hostility, suspicion, and near-conflict between the United States and Soviet Union from roughly 1947 to 1991.
The phrase captures the atmosphere of nuclear threat, proxy wars, and ideological opposition that defined the era: Cold War tensions escalated during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Now used for any prolonged standoff between powers that stops short of open warfare: Cold War tensions between the tech giants.
- proxy warsWarfare through allied states
- Berlin WallCold War partition
- Vietnam WarCold-era Indochina military engagement
- brinkmanshipPushing conflicts to disaster's threshold
- duck and coverEmergency protective posture
nuclear arms race · mutually assured destruction · capitalism · Iron Curtain · satellite state · covert operations · spy plane · defection · domino theory · Cuban Missile Crisis · missile gap · fallout shelter · Iron Lady · propaganda films · communism · psychological warfare · Warsaw Pact · Red Scare
- Trieste historyTrieste, Nazi occupation, Austrian Empire, Maximilian, fascist era
- Postwar Korea38th parallel, U.S. occupation, Soviet occupation, military government, occupation forces
Cold War tensionsdétente
Easing of strained relations
peaceful coexistence · rapprochement · global peace · alliance · entente
Cold War tensionshot war
Active armed combat
World War III · shooting war · conventional war · total war · nuclear war
Cold War tensionsglasnost
Soviet transparency reform
new world order · perestroika · fall of the Berlin Wall · European integration · peace dividend