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The National Archives and Records Administration holds and makes available for research a significant quantity of federal records and presidential materials that document Cold War era activities and concerns of the United States Government. This web page provides links and citations to NARA-prepared or NARA-sponsored sources of information about this Cold War documentation.

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Reference Information Paper 107, "An Introduction to National Archives Records Relating to the Cold War" This paper provides a brief overview of the holdings of the National Archives relating to the Cold War.

Cold War Related Records

National Archives Catalog The National Archives Catalog can be used to search a significant subset of NARA's holdings by media type and by subject.

Bibliographies, Conferences, and Papers

Conference: " From Vienna to Checkpoint Charlie: The Berlin Crisis of 1961 ", held October 27, 2011

The Cold War: An Eyewitness Perspective . Keynote address by Harlan Cleveland, at the Cold War Symposium held on October 21, 2006, at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Proceedings of the Conference on "The Power of Free Inquiry and Cold War International History" These proceedings resulted from a conference jointly sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration and the University of Maryland on September 25th and 26th, 1998.

A Select Bibliography: The Cold War This list, compiled by staff members at the Eisenhower Presidential Library, features resources that are based on presidential materials in the custody of the library facility in Abilene, KS.

Holocaust-Era Assets Bibliography: Cold War This list, compiled by members of the staff of NARA's Archives Library Information Center, features books about Cold War era efforts to recover Holocaust assets.

Bibliography of the John E. Taylor Collection This list features books about espionage and intelligence activities.

The Constitution Community The Constitution Community is a partnership between classroom teachers and education specialists from the National Archives and Records Administration. Some of the lesson plans resulting from this partnership relate to Cold War events.

Online Exhibit of "American Originals" The postwar segment of this exhibit features significant Cold-War-era documents, such as the speech cards that prompted President John F. Kennedy when he made his remarks in Berlin on June 26, 1963.

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As of mid-2020, forty-two volumes have been published in Harvard's Cold War Studies Book Series. For full information about the individual books, please go to the book series page .

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The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses primary sources from archives of the West and the East and seeks to comment on contested issues, such as the rise and fall of the bipolarity, the endings of the Cold War in Europe, the Soviet collapse, and the impact of the Cold War on the countries of the Third World.

The CWSP hosts a range of  events and conferences:

• On the 7 March Prof Sergei Radchenko delivers his seminar at the Research Forum,  "To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the post-Cold War"  (see below under "upcoming seminars" for full details).  
• On 8 March we mark International Women's Day with a conference,  "Women and Diplomacy: From the Interwar to the Cold War" .  Full details and info on how to attend can be found here .

The CWSP is home to the Cold War History Journal, hosts public lectures and events at LSE, and works with international partners to deliver the International Graduate Student Conference, the European Summer School on Cold War History, and the LSE-Sciences Po Contemporary International History Seminar.

Why Cold War Studies?

In 2004-2021, the Cold War Studies were located in LSE IDEAS, originally under the leadership of Prof Arne Westad and Mick Cox. The Cold War Studies Project employs LSE's unique potential for cooperation between historians, political and social scientists, theorists of international relations, and others to investigate the creation of the contemporary world through the prism of 20th century international history. Many of today's policy challenges such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s new assertiveness, the volatility in the Middle East, terrorism, ethnic conflict, and threat from weapons of mass destruction originated in the international history of the 20th century, but most analyses lack historical perspective. CWSP aims to help the public better understand the world and assist policymakers around the world - better understanding the Cold War will make us more prepared for the choices we need to make today.

Head of the Cold War Studies programme

Professor Vladislav Zubok

Contact email:  [email protected]

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Research Forum

"To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the post-Cold War", with Professor Sergey Radchenko

Thursday, 7 March (12pm - 1pm)

Room: MAR.2.05, Marshall Building, LSE 

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Speaker :  Sergei Radchenko, LSE alumni, former student of Prof Odd Arne Westad; the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of several books, including Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy  (Wilson Center Press & Stanford UP, 2009), and  Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia  (Oxford UP, 2014). He also frequently writes on current events in Foreign Affairs, The Spectator, Foreign Policy, etc.

Abstract : Sergey Radchenko will discuss his new magisterial book To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power , forthcoming  in the Cambridge University Press in May 2024. In particular he explores how the Soviet and Russian leaders formulated and pursued their foreign policy aims during the Cold War, and in its aftermath. 

Chair:  Professor Vladislav Zubok

Bio:   https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/people/radchenko .

The LSE Cold War Podcast

The LSE Cold War Podcast tackles the big questions around the conflict that made our contemporary world: The Cold War. Every fortnight, Jack Basu-Mellish interviews scholars from LSE, a leading global centre for the development of Cold War Studies, and beyond. Unpacking the history of the decades-long global conflict, the LSE Cold War Podcast examines the past, present, and future of Cold War history in conversation with some of the leading scholars in the field.

Click here for more information and to listen.

Event Recordings

The Beginning of the End of the Cold War Co-hosted with the Department of International History Tuesday 17 November 2020

Simon Miles discusses how the United States and the Soviet Union decided to move from covert engagement to overt conversation and how this laid the groundwork for the end of the Cold War.

30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: German historical memory and national identity Co-hosted with the Department of International History Wednesday 23 October 2019

Hope Harrison examines the arc of memory politics in Germany since 1989, including the impact of the rise of the far right as well as German plans for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall.

NATO at 70: History, Politics and Challenges Thursday 23 May 2019

Reflecting on NATO’s 70 anniversary, this round-table discussion reflected on the challenges that the Alliance faces today in light of its long-term history and development.

The Underrated Ally: Italy in the Cold War

Most histories of the Cold War portray Italy as being passive, without its own ambitious foreign policy. This panel discussion challenges that assumption by exploring Italian diplomacy during the Cold War and how Italian foreign policy was shaped by the country's domestic economy and politics.

The Cold War: a world history

Arne Westad and Michael Cox discusses the truly global nature of the Cold War, with East and West demanding absolute allegiance around the world.

Forging Europe: Vichy France and the origins of the European Union   LSE IDEAS-Open University event

In this lecture, Luc-André Brunet explains continuities from the wartime Vichy regime to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the forerunner to today’s European Union, and what this means for current debates about Europe.

Gorbachev: his life and times   LSE IDEAS- LSE Department of International History  event

How did a peasant boy rise to the top of the Soviet system and end it? Pulitzer Prize winner William Taubman explains how Gorbachev's biography and background influenced his unique role in world history.

The Balkans in the Cold War: Book Launch Discussion

The edited volume ‘Balkans in the Cold War’ contains 16 contributions from renowned experts and scholars on how the global Cold War manifested in the Balkans. This Q&A with the editors includes introductory comments by Arne Westad and Vesselin Dimitrov.

Trump and China in the Asian Century Part of the Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series with the University of Sheffield 

The election of Donald Trump as president signals a profound change in US foreign relations. In this lecture, Professor Arne Westad of Harvard University asks what the reactions to the Trump presidency are likely to be in eastern Asia and whether we are facing a fundamental power shift in the region.

The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights   Part of the Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series with the University of Sheffield

How did the idea of 'human rights' develop in the twentieth century? In this lecture, Mark Bradley explored how changes in US culture and thought in the 1970s reflected a changing global idea of 'universial human rights' and changed the American idea of what it means to be free.

From One Cold War to Another?   Part of the  LSE Literary Festival 2017

A wide ranging conversation with authors and columnists Anne Applebaum, Gideon Rachman, and Jonathan Fenby on if Russia and the West are facing a 'New Cold War', the rise of China, and the future of the international order. 

A Briton at the Heart of Europe: Revisiting Roy Jenkins' Presidency of the European Commission   LSE IDEAS -  LSE Department of International History  event 

Forty years ago, a British politician was appointed President of the European Commission. In this lecture Dr Piers Ludlow explored what Jenkins' tenure reveals about the nature of the job and the history of Britain in Europe. 

An Imaginary War? Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict during the Cold War   Part of the Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series with the University of Sheffield 

Collective imaginations of nuclear warfare were a central battleground of the Cold War, fought through war-games and fictitious scenarios. This panel debate explored the 'imaginary war' and how culture and individuals struggled to comprehend nuclear war.

Stalin's Team

We know a lot about Stalin but less about the team – Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan and the rest of a group whose membership was roughly but never quite equivalent to the Politburo – that surrounded him for 25 years.

25 Years After the End of the Cold War: Its Legacy in a New World Order

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, how do these events shape the world today? What are the legacies of the Cold War? And are we truly in the midst of a new Cold War?

The Polish Roundtable Talks and the End of the Cold War

The Polish roundtable talks and subsequent elections on 4 June 1989 were a crucial step in ending the Cold War. 25 years later, LSE IDEAS and the Polish Embassy in London hosted witnesses of the Polish Democratic Transition to join academics to discuss the importance of the events for Poland, for Europe, and for the world.

The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy

Official secrecy in the U.S. during the Cold War altered the culture of government and served many hidden agendas. Matthew Connelly explains how classified information became an institutional asset, security clearances became a way to police behaviour, and senior officials leaked classified information to gain higher office.  Select Matthew Connelly on the  Philippe Roman Chair page  to listen.

The Political Economy of the Cold War

At its heart the Cold War was a competition between two economic systems. Niall Ferguson compares and contrasts the United States and the Soviet Union and asks how far the outcome of the Cold War was economically determined from the outset.  Select Niall Ferguson on the  Philippe Roman Chair page  to listen.

The Third World’s War

The Cold War was waged partly through a series of proxy wars in Third World countries from Guatemala to Korea to Vietnam. Niall Ferguson argues that we need to see the ‘Third World's War’ in perspective. He explains how successful the Soviet Union was in pursuing a strategy of fomenting revolution and how consistently successive U.S. administrations behaved in response.  Select Niall Ferguson on the  Philippe Roman Chair page  to listen.

Nuclear Arms & Human Rights

The decisive breakthroughs in the Cold War occurred in seemingly unrelated fields, nuclear arms control and human rights. Niall Ferguson asks what were the links between these two issues and which mattered more?  Select Niall Ferguson on the  Philippe Roman Chair page  to listen.

Private Events

Star Wars: A View from the Commentariat Friday 31 May 2019

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman from King's College London delivered the keynote lecture entitled 'Star Wars: A View from the Commentariat'. This was part of the conference 'Towards an International History of the Strategic Defence Initiative'.

International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War

Jointly organsied by the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and the Cold War Group at George Washington University in Washington DC. The annual conference alternates between the three campuses. The 2018 conference took place at LSE on 3-5 May.

Nuclear Diplomacy in the ‘Second Cold War’: New Perspectives on NATO and the Euromissile Crisis Monday 26 March 2018

This workshop discussed new perspectives on the controversial deployment of nuclear weapons in Western Europe (‘Euromissiles’) in the early 1980s. Drawing on newly declassified sources across different NATO member states and beyond, participants re-evaluated the role of nuclear diplomacy at the height of the so-called Second Cold War.

Reflecting on the End of the Cold War

Founding Co-Director of LSE IDEAS Professor Michael Cox explains why it's important to look at the events of 1989 in order to understand contemporary international issues.

Towards a Global History of the Cold War in Latin America

Dr Tanya Harmer discusses her research and the need for a global history of the Cold War in Latin America.

Greece and Europe

In the context of the Eurozone crisis, many have questioned the rationale behind the decision to let Greece join the European Economic Community (EEC). Dr Eirini Karamouzi discusses this issue and her book  Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979. The Second Enlargement .

Why we are not in the midst of a new Cold War

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev warned that the world is in the midst of a new Cold War. In an interview with CNN, Luc-André Brunet explains why this is not the case.  Watch on CNN.com .

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Tamiment library and robert f. wagner labor archives.

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 [email protected] (212) 998-2630

Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives form a unique center for scholarly research on labor history and the history of socialist, anarchist, communist and other radical political movements.

To search other Cold War Collections in the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, visit the  search portal for Tamiment collections .​

For further information and tips on how to perform searches, please consult the  Tamiment Research Guide .

Special Collections Research Account

All researchers wishing to use archival collections and researchers unaffiliated with NYU wishing to use the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives must register to use the collections, which entails registering a  Special Collections Research Account (SCRA)  and showing a valid photo ID when they arrive at Tamiment. 

For more information consult the  SCRA FAQ .

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RSVP at  [email protected] .  All events at the Tamiment are free and open to the public.

CPUSA New York Demonstrations 1949 Smith Act Prosecutions

Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) - Smith Act Prosecution - New York - Demonstrations against, 1949; The Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection; PHOTOS.223; Box 401; Folder 20149; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Center for the United States and the Cold War

Tamiment's Cold War collections focus on the ways in which the ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society from 1945 to 1991. 

Highlighted Cold War Collections

• Alger Hiss Collections The Tamiment Library’s Alger Hiss (1904-1996) collections include Hiss family papers, his legal defense files, as well as collections from long-time Hiss associates. The Debevoise & Plimpton Records on Alger Hiss (dated 1938-1980) contain files from the legal firm's representation of Alger Hiss in his 1949 perjury trials and his 1979 coram nobis petition to overturn his conviction. A select group of materials from the Debevoise & Plimpton Records are being digitized and will be available online in 2018. In addition to the original archival materials that are housed at NYU, both the Alger Hiss Defense Collection for the Harvard Law School Library and the Hiss Papers are available through Microfilm. Future projects will microfilm the Alger Hiss correspondence in the records of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Alger Hiss files in the United Nations Archives.
• Phillip Agee Papers (TAM.517) Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (1935–2008) joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. He was best known as the author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975), which identified about 250 CIA officers, front companies and foreign agents then or previously working for the United States.
• Jay and Si-Lan Chen Leyda Papers (TAM.083) Jay Leyda (1910-1988) studied directing with Sergei Eisenstein at the Moscow State Film School, became a correspondent for Theatre Arts Monthly and New Theatre , and was an art critic for the Moscow News . In 1936, Leyda was the assistant to Iris Barry, curator of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, but resigned amidst allegations that he was a subversive agent. Leyda went to Hollywood in 1942 where he was a technical advisor on films on Russian subjects. His wife, Si Lan Chen Leyda (b. 1909), was a modern dancer who attended the Bolshoi Ballet School and Vera Maya's school in Moscow where she met and married Leyda.
• Church League of America Collection of the Research Files of Counterattack , the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag (TAM.148) The Church League of America (1937-1984), a right wing anti-communist research and advocacy group, collected these research files from other creators with a similar political outlook and professional activities: American Business Consultants Inc., the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag. All of these creators had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States government, kept detailed research files on individuals and organizations, and were part of a right-wing research and information network that monitored Communists.
• Communist Party of the United States (TAM.132) The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political organization that was founded in Chicago in 1919 and played a pivotal role in many political and social movements of the 20th century. The Party’s work left an indelible mark in the arena of progressive politics, particularly from the 1920s to the 1940s. Though the CPUSA’s strength and size declined sharply following the advent of the Cold War and McCarthyism, it remained committed to economic and social justice. Though materials from as early as 1892 can be found in the collection, the bulk of the records were created between 1950 and 1990. A more comprehensive record of the CPUSA’s early 20th century activity can be found in the Files of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives, 1919-1943 (Microfilm R-7548).
• The Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection (PHOTOS.223) The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States, covering a wide range of events in the United States and around the world. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.
• National Council on American-Soviet Friendship Records (TAM.134) The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship succeeded the National Council on Soviet Relations, founded in 1941. The NCSR grew out of the more overtly radical American-Soviet friendship movement of the 1930's, whose organizational center was the Friends of the Soviet Union founded in 1929. The Council, composed largely of professionals who were sympathetic to Socialism, believed that the USSR and the United States should join together in their common fight against fascism. In 1946, the House Un-American Activities Committee began a formal investigation of NCASF, and in 1947, it was indicted for failure to register with the Subversive Activities Control Board.
• National Guardian Photographs (PHOTOS.213) The National Guardian (later known as The Guardian ) was a radical leftist weekly newspaper published in New York City between 1948 and 1992. The National Guardian reported on labor, activism, reform, and social movements without particular party affiliations, advocating for a unified leftist party in the United States. Known for its independent and investigative journalism, the paper produced significant pieces on civil rights and the Cold War, and was one of the few publications to print news sympathetic to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their trial and execution.
• National Lawyers Guild (TAM.191) The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that lawyers had a major role to play in reconstructing legal values by emphasizing human rights over property rights. This collection includes early administrative records of the Guild, primarily those of its National Office and New York City Chapter, as well as materials describing legal and political activities of many of the Guild's chapters and committees. The bulk of the collection, however, is focused on the court case which revealed that the Guild had been the target of a forty-year covert Federal Bureau of Investigation campaign of surveillance, infiltration and intimidation (National Lawyers Guild v. Attorney General, 1977-1989).
• Victor Navasky Papers (TAM.594) Victor Navasky (b. 1932) was editor of The Nation from 1978-1995, publisher and editorial director from 1995-2005, and later publisher emeritus. The collection provides a broad view of Victor Navasky’s life, his interests, and his work. His books, articles, essays, plays, and speeches are represented, particularly his extensive research on the Hollywood Blacklist and the early Cold War. There is a small audio-visual series containing, for example, audio recordings of a number of interviews Navasky conducted for his book, Naming Names .

(Note: Tamiment Researchers must use: Microfilm - Film R-7860)

The Rapp-Coudert Committee (New York State Joint Legislative Committee on the State Education System) was charged with investigating individuals and organizations with suspected radical ties in New York City public schools and colleges from 1940-1942. This collection consists of the Committee's investigation files including correspondence, interview notes, lists and hearing transcripts; minutes; and copies of Communist, anti-war and civil liberties publications collected by the Committee in the course of investigations. (Note that Tamiment Library holds only a microfilm version of this collection Film R-7860. The original documents are held by the New York State Archives.)

• Howard Zinn Papers (TAM.542) Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, activist, playwright, teacher, public speaker and author of articles, essays, and books including his best-selling A People’s History of the United States . Reaching the wider public through his work, Zinn celebrated the lives of ordinary individuals engaged in the struggle for peace and justice, highlighting their often overlooked victories, and encouraging his audiences to engage as well. This collection provides a broad view of Howard Zinn’s many activities and interests, including his articles, interviews, and lectures on US foreign policy during the Cold War.
• Tamiment Serials Collections (Multiple Collections) Uncataloged Tamiment serials were archivally processed and opened for research by February 2019, with all finding aids and catalog records published and discoverable as collections were completed. In addition, 253 publications, measuring over 250 linear feet, were identified as matches for bibliographically cataloged titles throughout NYU’s sub-libraries, and moved to these sub-libraries to fill gaps in existing holdings. The project resulted in 9,397 previously uncataloged and under-described unique serial titles being arranged into 24 assembled subject-based collections.
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• Asia Serials (TAM.779)
• Communist and Socialist Serials (TAM.747)
• Foreign Politics Serials (TAM.765)
• Latin America Serials (TAM.770)
• Religion Serials (TAM.777)
• United States Politics and Government Serials (TAM.759)
• War and Peace Movement Serials (TAM.757)
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In the 1950s, the Soviet Union expanded the range of its fisheries operations into international water traditionally fished by American vessels. In the USA, government officials and fisheries experts alike expressed concerns that the Soviets were overfishing Atlantic stocks, or even potentially engaging in off-shore espionage. Despite these fears, members of the US fisheries management community reached out and engaged with their Soviet counterparts directly. This initial communication led to a series of collaborations between US and Soviet scientific agencies aimed at developing a deeper understanding of marine ecosystems and improving the sustainability of international fisheries. The joint US–USSR research efforts beginning in the 1960s laid the foundation for continued cooperative studies through the 1980s and into the post-Soviet era. This paper uses historical records from the US National Archives and data products currently available on the web to examine the legacy of this Cold War cooperative research program. These materials demonstrate how American and Soviet scientists collaborated to generate and describe data on fisheries. It also considers how they negotiated recordkeeping and data management activities across radically different governmental structures, while also navigating the transition to digital recordkeeping and data exchange. This case offers perspective on the preservation of at-risk ecological records and the continued value of these data in our contemporary world.

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The division of conquered Germany, shortly after World War II, into a democratic Western state and a communist Eastern state signaled the start of the Cold War—a fifty-year series of political conflicts between capitalist and communist blocs. The collapse of the Soviet Union near the end of the twentieth century signaled the end of the Cold War.

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Following the end of World War II in 1945, a new kind of war, a so-called Cold War, broke out. This new war centered on ideological and political conflicts, particularly the conflict between capitalism and communism. This Cold War, which turned hot several times, particularly in Korea and Vietnam, endured for nearly fifty years and affected most of the globe as countries increasingly had to choose sides with one of the superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) in an increasingly bipolar world. During conferences at Yalta (1943) and Potsdam (1945) it became clear that the individual nations that made up the allied powers had very different views regarding the shape of the postwar world.

On 5 March 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a speech in Fulton, Missouri, (now known as his Iron Curtain Speech) in which he defined the terms of this new conflict. According to Churchill, “From Stettin in the Baltic and Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” In this speech, Churchill harshly criticized the actions of the Soviet Union. From this moment on, the same Stalin who had been called Uncle Joe during the war effort was now once again transformed into a dangerous and dictatorial enemy.

Cold War in Europe and the United States

In the United States, Cold War policies were set out in several early government documents. The first of these, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, was promoted in a speech on 12 March of 1947. In this speech, President Harry Truman declared, “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.” In June of 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall set out the European Recovery Program (later known as the Marshall Plan), which provided for economic aid to back up the ideology of the Truman Doctrine. In his article in Foreign Affairs the diplomat and historian George Kennan set out the final plank in the Cold War platform of the United States. The “containment policy” that Kennan espoused became the rationale for most United States foreign policy behavior in the next forty years. Kennan’s policy of “containing” Communist nations later gave rise to the Domino Theory, that is, the idea that if one country fell to communism, others would follow (particularly in Asia).

The earliest strain in the Cold War came in Germany as the United States and Western nations merged their zones to create a West German federal government and worked to rebuild West Germany while denouncing the Soviet Union’s policies in East Germany. The introduction of a new currency in West Germany led to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, which lay within East Germany and thus within the Soviet zone of occupation. In response to the blockade, the Allies managed to supply West Berlin through a massive airlift that lasted for over a year. Ultimately, Germany was divided between east and west and in 1961 the Berlin Wall went up, physically dividing the city of Berlin into two zones of power.

The Cold War also led to the creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), an organization that provided for the mutual defense and assistance of Western European nations against any hostile action by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union responded by creating an alliance with Eastern European countries, known as the Warsaw Pact.

Cold War in Asia

The agreements made at Yalta had provided a structure for postwar cooperation in Asia but these initial agreements soon fell apart. The Soviet Union had agreed to enter the war in the Pacific three months after the defeat of Germany and Stalin abided by this agreement. Roosevelt had agreed to allow the Soviet Union to establish a base at Port Arthur, China, in exchange for Stalin’s agreement to sign a treaty of alliance with Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China. A Communist movement, viewed as a direct attempt by the Soviet Union to achieve the worldwide revolution that had been advocated by Lenin, had emerged in China in the 1930s. The Communist and non-Communist (Nationalist) parties in China had attempted to cooperate after the Japanese invasion but had been largely unsuccessful and both groups were anticipating a renewed struggle after the defeat of Japan. In 1949, the Nationalist government fled to Taiwan and Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. The United States refused to recognize Mao’s government, instead maintaining ties to the Nationalist government in Taiwan. The United States lamented the “loss of China” and vowed to take whatever steps were necessary to prevent the spread of Communism throughout Asia.

The situation in Korea also deteriorated rapidly. The removal of Korea from Japanese control had been one of the stated objectives of the allies in World War II. Prior to the surrender of Japan in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union had occupied the country, temporarily dividing it at the thirty-eighth parallel. The allies planned to hold elections after the restoration of peace and allow the newly elected government to rule an independent Korea. However, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had led to the establishment of separate governments in North and South Korea. The Communist government in North Korea, with the approval of Stalin and the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. As a result of a boycott of the U.N. Security Council by the Soviet Union, the United States was able to pass a resolution that labeled North Korea as an aggressive nation and called for U.N. forces to be sent to Korea. The U.N. forces, led by the U.S. general Douglas MacArthur, defeated North Korean troops and expelled them from South Korea. Subsequently, MacArthur and the U.N. forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and adopted a new mission, which aimed to unite all of Korea under a non-Communist government. China had issued several warnings that they might intervene if U.N. forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel but these warnings were ignored. When the Chinese made good on their threat to supply both men and materiel, U.N. forces had to retreat back into South Korea. A defensive line was established near the thirty-eighth parallel. Peace negotiations dragged on without result and the Korean War eventually ended in a stalemate. At the end of the war, Korea remained divided.

The other major “hot” war in the post–World War II period was also fought through the lens of Cold War tensions. The initial war in French Indo-China began as a result of the French decision to try to reestablish control of their colony after the war. War broke out between the French and Ho Chi Minh’s Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1946. After the French fortress at Dien Bien Phu fell to Communist forces the French agreed to negotiations and the Geneva Conference in 1954 brought an end to the first Indochina war. The United States had sent considerable aid to the French in order to prevent the spread of Communism, while pressuring the French to agree to Vietnamese independence at a future date. The Geneva agreements had called for elections in Vietnam but as it became clear that free elections would most likely result in a Communist victory, the United States sought other solutions. The United States was increasingly unwilling to risk another Asian domino to the Communists. Thus, the United States supported Ngo Dinh Diem, who refused to agree to the elections called for by the Geneva Accords. Despite U.S. assistance South Vietnam was on the verge of collapse by 1963. The United States responded by sending military advisers and increased material supplies. In 1965, the United States under President Lyndon Johnson began to send U.S. troops to Vietnam. President Nixon, under increasing pressure to end the war, bombed not just Vietnam but also Laos and Cambodia. The Treaty of Paris in January of 1973 ended the conflict. Two years after the war ended, South Vietnam fell to the Communists.

The spread of the Cold War to Asia led Southeast Asian nations to form an alliance in 1954, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). This alliance was an effort to cooperate economically and also to resist further Communist encroachment in Southeast Asia. It included representatives of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States.

Cold War in Africa

Africa was more indirectly affected by Cold War tensions. Both the United States and the Soviet Union directed economic assistance plans and policies aimed at securing Cold War alliances. But in the postwar world, African nations were occupied by the struggle for independence and faced significant challenges upon obtaining independence. Independence was achieved earlier in north and central Africa, where there were fewer white settlers, than in South Africa, where the white-dominated government struggled to maintain its position of power and the policies of apartheid.

Cold War in The Middle East

The Middle East achieved its independence after World War II. Regional differences, territorial disputes, and the British mandate that divided territory between Palestine and the newly created nation of Israel contributed to instability in the area. The Arab-Israeli conflict also contributed to violence in the region. Arab nations cooperated in an attempt to defeat the Israelis and reclaim the territory occupied by the citizens of that nation. The emergence of various militant religious groups radically altered the nature of many Middle Eastern governments, particularly in Iran. During the Cold War, regional problems were further complicated by the political interests of the United States and the Soviet Union, both of whom valued the region, partly because of the vast oil resources in the Middle East. Its strategic location and vast production of petroleum made the Middle East of value to all industrialized nations. The United States contributed money and material aid to the Israeli government and intervened in the area in an attempt to maintain its interests, both economic and military, in the area while the Soviet Union fought and lost a war in Afghanistan.

Cold War in Latin America

The United States had inaugurated a policy of nonintervention in Latin America in the 1930s but reversed this policy after World War II. Communist movements and fear of the spread of Communism in addition to economic interests in the area were primarily responsible for the change in policy. In Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman came to power and began to reduce the influence and interests of U.S. businesses. The United Fruit Company, controlled by U.S. interests, noted that the Communists were involved in the changes and asked for assistance. A U.S.-led military operation successfully deposed Arbenz Guzman and the new government repealed his land reform measures and jailed and murdered Communists. A small guerrilla movement of Communists and other nationalists emerged and violence continued for three decades.

In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, enacting a social and political revolution in Cuba based on Marxist ideas. He also initiated land reform, seizing all land from owners who had more than 165 acres. Economic sanctions by the United States and other countries who refused to trade with Cuba caused a rapid decline in the Cuban economy.

Cuba became a key nation in the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States attempted to overthrow Castro by landing Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After this failed invasion, Castro sought protection from the Soviet Union and vowed to spread Communism to other areas in Latin America. Although Castro failed to bring other Communist governments to power in Latin America, his alliance with the Soviet Union brought the world to the edge of a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet Union had agreed to install missiles in Cuba and to support Castro against further actions by the United States. In response, President John Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba, to prevent missiles from being sent to Cuba. Ultimately, Nikita Khrushchev backed down and agreed to dismantle existing sites and pledged not to install missiles at a future date. This direct confrontation and the realization of how close the world had come to nuclear war led to the installation of a direct phone line between the United States and the Soviet Union and subsequently to a thaw in relations and talks regarding the reduction of nuclear arms.

The End of the Cold War

Although there were earlier improvements in the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and agreements to limit nuclear weapons (SALT I and SALT II), real change occurred only with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. When Mikhail Gorbachev became premier of the Soviet Union in 1985 he began attempting to reform the Communist system. The two best-known aspects of his reform program are perestroika, the attempted decentralization and restructuring of the economy, and glasnost, a move toward free speech and a free press. Instead of the reform and revival that Gorbachev hoped would transpire, revolutions occurred in Eastern Europe and when the Soviet Union did not send troops to restore order, the Communist governments in Eastern Europe simply fell. The most prominent symbol of the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe was the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of Germany in the 1990s. After an attempted Communist coup in the Soviet Union in 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also collapsed. Individual republics such as the Ukraine withdrew from the union and Gorbachev resigned as president of the union after an attempted coup by military and old-style Communists, which led to the rise of Boris Yeltsin as a political figure.

With the collapse of Communism, the Cold War that had dominated European politics for nearly fifty years was essentially over. Although Communism itself still existed in China, Cuba, and a few other areas, the dismantling of the Soviet Union seemed to signify its decline and the victory of democracy. The decline of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union eased tensions and pressure on nations in Asia and Latin America. Nonetheless, the United States and the former Soviet Union continued to have very different views regarding world affairs. The end of Cold War tensions did not lead to the destruction of NATO, but it did temporarily reduce tensions and end the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. It also paved the way for a reunited Germany and for Eastern European nations to join the European Union.

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• The Cold War’s Developments in the Relations Between the US and the Soviet Union The cold war was fueled by mistrust between the USSR and the U.S. At the end of the World War II, USSR was the only power centre that nearly equaled the U.S.
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• The Cold War Between the Union Soviet Socialist Republic and the United States of America The Americans believed in the principles of democracy and free enterprise while the Russians believed that the whole world must convert to a system of governance according to the teachings of Karl Marx and Lenin.
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• How Did the Cold War Transform American Foreign Policy?
• What Are the Main Origins of the Cold War, and Why?
• What Role Did Sport Play During the Cold War?
• How Did the Cold War Begin and What Weapons Were Used to Fight This War?
• How Did Cold War Affect Popular Culture?
• What Factors Influenced the Origins of the Cold War?
• What Did the Berlin Wall Mean to Both Sides in the Cold War?
• Why Was the Cold War Called the Cold War?
• How Did the Cold War Shape the American Economy, Society, and Politics?
• How Did the Berlin Crisis Affect the Cold War?
• What Were the Main Reasons for the Beginning of the Cold War Between the USA and the Ussr?
• What Were the Key Elements of the Policy of Deterrence and Containment During the Cold War?
• How and Why Did the Cold War End?
• Why Did the Cold War in Europe and Asia Get More Serious?
• Did the Cold War Affect International Relations?
• Why Was Ronald Reagan Not Responsible for Ending the Cold War?
• Why Did the Cold War End, and What Roles Did Hard and Soft Power Play?
• Why Was the Cuban Missile Crisis a Turning Point in Cold War Relations?
• Why Did the Liberal World System Win the Cold War?
• Why Did the Detente Didn’t End the Cold War?
• What Impact Did World War II and the Cold War Have On the Development of Science in the 20th Century?
• Why Did the United States Get Involved in the War in Korea, and in What Sense Was It an Outgrowth of the Cold War?
• What Were Americans Fears During the Cold War?
• What Was the Domino Theory During the Cold War?
• What Was the Cold War, and How Did It Start?
• Did Ronald Reagan End the Cold War?
• Why Did the Cold War Never Become Hot?
• What Caused the Clash Between Communism and Capitalism During the Cold War?
• How Did the Cold War Affect Domestic Policy and American Society?
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