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On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
Stephen Cohen

Meaning of "cold war" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLD WAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLD WAR

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Cold war is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COLD WAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Cold War

The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common. It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences over totalitarian communism and capitalist democracy. A deliberately neutral grouping arose with the Non-Aligned Movement founded by Egypt, India, and Yugoslavia; this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or the Soviet-led East. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation of an all-out nuclear World War III. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction or MAD.

Definition of cold war in the English dictionary

The definition of cold war in the dictionary is a state of political hostility and military tension between two countries or power blocs, involving propaganda, subversion, threats, economic sanctions, and other measures short of open warfare, esp that between the American and Soviet blocs after World War II.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLD WAR

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cold spot
cold start
cold starting
cold steel
cold storage
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cold turkey
cold warrior
cold wave
cold welding
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WORDS THAT END LIKE COLD WAR

bidding war
civil war
cod war
council of war
declaration of war
dirty war
flame war
ground war
guerrilla war
holy war
limited war
man o´ war
opium war
prisoner of war
sloop of war
state of war
theatre of war
to have had a good war
trade war
turf war

Synonyms and antonyms of cold war in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cold war» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLD WAR

Find out the translation of cold war to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cold war from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cold war» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冷战
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guerra fría
570 millions of speakers

English

cold war
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शीत युद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحرب الباردة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

холодная война
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

guerra fria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঠান্ডা মাথার যুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guerre froide
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

perang Dingin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kalten Krieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冷戦
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

냉전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang dingin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiến tranh lạnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பனிப்போர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शीतयुद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

soğuk Savaş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guerra fredda
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zimna wojna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

холодна війна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

război rece
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχρού πολέμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koue Oorlog
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kalla kriget
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kalde krigen
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLD WAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cold war

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLD WAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cold war.
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Russell Baker
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
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Lynne Reid Banks
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
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Bernard Baruch
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Earl Browder
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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Earl Browder
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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James Buchan
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
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Stephen Cohen
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
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Stephen Cohen
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.
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Robert Dallek
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLD WAR»

Discover the use of cold war in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cold war and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Latin America's Cold War
In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic.
Hal Brands, 2012
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Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford
The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University.
Rebecca S. Lowen, 1997
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We now know: rethinking Cold War history
Examines the history of the Cold War, reflecting Soviet, East European, Chinese, American, and West European viewpoints, and offering new insights and solutions to long-standing puzzles
John Lewis Gaddis, 1997
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After the Cold War: International Institutions and State ...
Bringing together the work of seasoned experts and younger scholars, this volume offers a wide-ranging analysis of the effects of historical patterns whether interrupted or intact on post Cold War politics.
Robert Owen Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Stanley Hoffmann, 1993
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Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, ...
This study reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration - a distinct chapter in the process of US-led globalization.
Christina Klein, 2003
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Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and ...
The account in this book of their activities is therefore not only informative, but critical to understanding recent history.
A. Ross Johnson, R. Eugene Parta, 2010
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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
"--Richard Delgado, Jean Lindsley Professor of Law, University of Colorado "This book is a "tour de force." Dudziak's brilliant analysis shows that the Cold War had a profound impact on the civil rights movement.
‎2011
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Mao's China and the Cold War
This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Jian Chen, 2001
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Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American ...
Surveying a wide range of major science fiction novels and films, this book focuses on the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak.
M. Keith Booker, 2001
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Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond
This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War.
Matthew M. Aid, Cees Wiebes, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLD WAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cold war is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vladimir Putin revives Cold War programme of midget 'Piranha …
Russian president Vladimir Putin is planning to recommission Cold War-era fleet of midget submarines which are virtually undetectable. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Former Cold War Norfolk airbase can be yours for £2.5m
A RAF base at the heart of the Cold War is up for sale for £2.5m ... was at the forefront of the Cold War until the collapse of the Soviet Union. «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Jul 15»
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Obama to End Three More Wars: Vietnam and Cold War Finally …
Republicans and Democrats alike have cherished Cold War rhetoric as an essential campaign meme to the present day. You can still hear ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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MacDill unit's Ukraine work reminiscent of Cold War
Shannon Ryan is too young to remember the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. But as an airman with the 927th Air ... «TBO.com, Jul 15»
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Tennis: Cold War is coming with Sharapova as Serena Williams …
SERENA Williams out-slugged Victoria Azarenka to set up a frosty Wimbledon semi-final with Maria Sharapova and keep her calendar grand ... «The National, Jul 15»
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RAF Cold War base on sale for £2.5m complete with 3-storey …
A former RAF base used for secret radar operations during the Second World War is for sale for £2.5million - complete with a three-storey ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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In the Race to Control the Arctic, the US Lags Behind
It's a new kind of geopolitical cold war, and the U.S. is in danger of losing. “We're not even in the same league as Russia right now,” Coast ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
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Book details secret Westover Cold War operation
Today, Westover is an air reserve base that houses military and civilian activity and is home to a massive air show (above), but according to ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
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Nazis, Germans and cold war propaganda
If anything it has become less since the end of the cold war; for example it is now admitted that the Wehrmacht, and not just the SS, committed ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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From Blueprints To Betrayal: The Daring, And Downfall, Of A Cold
It was the middle of the Cold War and the CIA was having a difficult time getting information on what the Soviet Union was up to next. «NPR, Jul 15»

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