A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/a-marxist-history-of-the-world/16006-a-marxist-history-of-the-world-part-91-the-cold-war
Date Written:  2012-09-02
Publisher:  Counterfire
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14552

The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.

Subject Headings

• Arms Race
• Atomic Bomb
• Cold War
• Communism
• Communist Regimes/Europe
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Hiroshima
• Imperialism
• Korea
• Nuclear War
• Nuclear Weapons
• Soviet Union
• State Capitalism
• United States of America