Cold War Begins
冷戰開始
Source: Cold War
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Date: Last revised April 15, 2017 Author: Multiple contributors
Only a few years after World War II, the United States began to play a central role in global affairs, particularly through the newly established United Nations and NATO. The most significant political and diplomatic issue of the early postwar years was the Cold War, rooted in a long-standing disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over which system of government and economy could best deliver freedom, equality, and prosperity.
The Cold War is generally considered to have begun in 1947 and ended in 1991. It represented an entirely new form of international strategic competition arising from 20th-century national security imperatives, with cultural warfare as its most defining characteristic — the struggle was fundamentally ideological.
External Links
- He Qing: Cultural Cold War and the CIA — The Sudden Emergence of “American Painting”
- The Cold War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War (U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs)
- The Marshall Plan: A Strategy That Worked (David W. Ellwood)
- Cultural Cold War (MBA Think Tank Encyclopedia)