Talk:Cold War (1979–1985)

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Salvadoran Civil War?
I'll look in the 1986-? article, but it seems that this article should mention the Salvadoran Civil War, quite parallel to the Nicaraguan conflict (which is mentioned). Lawikitejana 07:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a "Second Cold War"
Or at least not as established thinking. I believe the consensus is that the Cold War was unbroken from 1945 to 1991, or thereabouts. There were times when relations relaxed or became tense, but never was there a period where relations were sufficient so say that the Cold War had ended (such as from 1975 to 1985).

A Google Search I performed did not find any other references that linked the term "Second Cold War" to anything what is described in this article. It may appear in one book, but a solitary reference cannot make a sweeping generalisation that there was ever two or more Cold Wars. Kransky (talk) 14:26, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Afghanistan
Added a more general sentence including links to the the parties in the Afghan wars. There is more complete discussion on those pages of civilian deaths, which the previous statement oversimplified, using a POV source. Better sources and discussion are available on the referencedwiki pages. DJ Silverfish (talk) 01:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * How is the source POV? I appreciate that a general overview might be better, and the wording was questionable, but Cold War (1962-79) has a whole paragraph about Vietnam war casualties.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

The Americans
What about "the Americans" TV series? All of this series is devoted to this phase of the Cold War. Shouldn't it appear under "Culture and media"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.133.145.196 (talk) 03:57, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Cold war allies Map
Could anyone explain what the green Xs in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine represent? I don't really see much relevance to the cold war in either case. Also, I was wondering why Soviet allies have two light red colours and what they represent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.99.56.136 (talk) 00:04, 4 July 2019 (UTC)


 * The green X's refer to major insurgencies which are not neatly aligned with either side of the Cold War. However it should be noted that the IRA and the PLO were directly armed and trained by the KGB as they targeted US-aligned governments in the United Kingdom and Israel. Therefore, labelling them as "non-aligned" does not make much sense in my view. MLPfanficwriter (talk) 00:08, 4 October 2022 (UTC)