Who started the Cold War?

The Cold War—we have spent a generation hearing about it, thinking about it, worrying about it. read more

Meanwhile, beginning in 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee brought the Cold War home in another way. The committee began a series of hearings designed to show that communist subversion in the United States was alive and well. read more

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). read more

Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. read more

The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. read more