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The Cold War, 1947–1991 — The Conflict That Shaped the Modern World
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The Broken Alliance, 1945–1947
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The Opening Moves: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Blockade
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The Nuclear Terror: How Two Superpowers Learned to Live with Mutual Destruction
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The Hot Wars: Korea, Vietnam, and the Logic of Proxy Conflict
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Crises and Near-Misses: Berlin, Cuba, and the Edge of Catastrophe
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Détente and the Long Stalemate: Accommodation Without Resolution
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Why the USSR Collapsed: The End of the Cold War, 1985–1991
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The Cold War, 1947–1991 — The Conflict That Shaped the Modern World
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Two nations ended the Second World War as allies and emerged from it as rivals whose competition would define the next four decades. The United States and the Soviet Union never fought each other directly, yet their contest shaped virtually every major event from 1947 until the Soviet collapse in 1991: colonial revolutions, proxy wars, nuclear scares, space races, cultural propaganda, and intelligence battles fought across dozens of countries. The Cold War was not a single confrontation. It was a long rivalry with its own rhythms of tension and relaxation, escalation and restraint. Understanding it requires tracing how that rivalry began, what kept it stable enough to avoid direct war, and why it ended the way it did — not with a bang but with the hollowing out of one side from within. This series moves through the Cold War in sequence, examining not just what happened but why leaders made the choices they did and what consequences those choices carried.
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