At the end of World War II, English writer George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", published 19 October 1945 in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating a world living in the

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Russian Revolution
While most historians trace the origins of the Cold War to the period immediately following World War II, some argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks took power. In World War I,

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Wartime conferences regarding post-war Europe
The Allies disagreed about how the European map should

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Iron Curtain, Iran, Turkey, and Greece
In late February 1946, George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow to Washington helped to articulate the US government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets, which would become the basis for US strategy

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Khrushchev, Eisenhower and de-Stalinization
In 1953, changes in political leadership on both sides shifted the dynamic of the Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhowerwas inaugurated president that January. During the last 18 months of the

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In the course of the 1960s and 1970s, Cold War participants struggled to adjust to a new, more complicated pattern of international relations in

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The term new Cold War refers to the period of intensive reawakening of Cold War tensions and conflicts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Tensions greatly increased between the major powers with both sides becoming more militant. Digginssays,

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