Talk:Cold War/Archive 1

The role of propaganda in the Cold War could be mentioned. --user:Daniel C. Boyer

--- Nice rewrite of the intro 195! Very clear and to the point. --mav 19:21 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)

-- I altered the comment about the cold war being about democracy versus communism. The cold war was definitely not about democracy versus communism. Many dictatorial regimes sides with the West in the Cold War, and the US in fact supported dictatorships during the Cold War, and even engineered the overthrow of several democratic governments in order to install pro-US dictatorships. soulpatch

- ref: http://coldwar.army.mil/
 * for the dates! birth/ death.

Should there not be more stress on simple fear, as opposed to economics and ideaology? The West certainly feared "the international communist conspiracy", and the Soviets were monumentally paranoic about the West - quite arguably with some justice: the Soviets never forgot that Western (and Japanese) armies invaded Russian soil in 1919 with the avowed aim of overthrowing the government, and needed only to glance at a map to see that they were surrounded on three sides. After the Sino-Soviet split, on all four sides. As the saying goes, "this paranoid had real enemies!" Tannin

Good public domain source for fleshing this article out: http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/cold-war.htm -- RobLa 19:22 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)

I seem to recall there being a conflict in Greece as well. Does anyone know more? Theanthrope 20:43 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)

-- I have just added some content, all of which is not complete (to be completed by a little more on the wartime conferences). However, there is still a huge gap (the Korean War). Hopefully, the rest of the article will be as detailed as the section on the origins of the Cold War. 172 - What is the proper name in English for the 1963-1975 era that we call "la Détente" in France ? Ericd 18:21 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)


 * I believe it is "detente." --Daniel C. Boyer 18:57 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Correction
What you in France call "la détente" is in English: "the Détente Decade"