Talk:Cold War/to do

Please link this article in the See Also section thanks for considering this request. \ R L Norman, rlnorman@normanpark.com


 * Cold War and the Middle East, by R L Norman, Jr., former organizer for the Socialist Scholars Conference www.socialistscholars.com

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 * Insufficiently tight for such a key unifying concept in recent history.... The overall periodisation needs revision I believe (the last sub-period is very large compared to the first two...) and linking to other key articles needs improving. Imagery is sadly lacking. Paul James Cowie 21:35, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow. This gets my vote. It's in need of serious cleanup and organization. -Iten 06:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * As part of overall improvement, Cold War now contains a number of section stubs which outline a phased historical overview of the conflict. These should be expanded judiciously, truly detailed information being devolved to the sub-period articles. Paul James Cowie 05:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * With the article being about such an important topic, it should be a priority to clean it up and get rid of the several stubs that it contains by adding information or merging sections. This is a highly visible page on search engines, and having it look polished and complete will benefit to the overall 'look' of Wikipedia. -vekron 04:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The current article almost ignores the space race, and does not even mention the Apollo 11 mission. While the Cold War was a struggle expressed in multiple competitions between the democratic nations and the communist ones, space, space technology, and missions/achievements were catalysts for many important events to take place here on earth. ALSO, I think it is important to put in a section about how the Cold War was influenced by the media, and vice versa. 60s tv shows like Mission Impossible, or even Rocky and Bullwinkle, portrayed a communist threat to the people of the United States; simultaneously there was a lot of media propaganda in the Soviet Union that portrayed the democratic nations as a threat. Ironchef8000 21:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea: Cold War and the media or Cold War and culture would be good main articles on that subject.&mdash;thames 21:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Besides tackling the Cold War chronologically, we ought to have articles on the Cold War regionally: Cold War in Latin America, Cold War in Europe, Cold War in Africa, Cold War in East Asia, Cold War in South Asia, Cold War in Oceania, Cold War in South East Asia, and Cold War in the Middle East. These can draw out regional dynamics that the main article will necessarily have to overlook.&mdash;thames 21:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * There should be more information about the people during the cold war. I am working on adding more information about propaganda and culture of the cold war. Additionally, I think that Cold War espionage should have a lot more information in it. Espionage was one of the most important parts of the Cold War.--Arthus [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px|]] 22:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * In my humble view, the article is very generous and enthusiastic in outlining the reasons the USSR had to mistrust the Americans, but is lacking in explaining the other side of the coin, i.e. (where do I start?) Stalin's ruthless purges against anyone whose nose shape he didn't like, resulting in between 7-10 million political arrests and at least a million executions in Siberia detention camps by 1940, the overwhelming majority of which were innocent; not to mention the Soviet dictator's other policies towards Soviet citizens (resulting in mass hunger, forced displacement of millions of non-white Russian ethnic citizens) and the expansionist themes in Lenin and Stalin's ideology. All of these "internal events" going on can't be ignored when formulating foreign policy with a country, as liberal as it (the policy) aspires to be. Counterboint