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Cold War
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cold war
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2022 April 17
Etymology
en Q15524682 1947 1, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.William Safire William Safire Language: Islamofascism, anyone? International Herald Tribune https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/opinion/01iht-edsafire.2988871.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220330020831/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/opinion/01iht-edsafire.2988871.html 30 March 2022 Paris International Herald Tribune 1 October 2006 0294-8052 643515795.
Pronunciation
en /ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/ RP
en /ˌkoʊld ˈwɔɹ/ /ˈkoʊld ˌwɔɹ/ GA
en En-us-cold war.oga GA
en ɔː(ɹ)
Proper noun
Cold War 1
en historical The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.
en w:Richard Nixon Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’ https://web.archive.org/web/20171009010438/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mhvEuGHLI 09 October 2017 w:Seoul Broadcasting System w:Richard Nixon Foundation https://www.nixonfoundation.org/1992/03/richard-nixon-on-inside-washington/ March 30, 1992 13:46 Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
en w:Tony Judt The Politics of Stability London Vintage Books 2005 2010 9781446418024 Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 The situation in Berlin had its uses for Moscow, of course, as for others–the city had become the primary listening post and spy center of the Cold War; some 70 different agencies were operating there by 1961, and it was in Berlin that Soviet espionage scored some of their greatest successes.
en 2023 November 29 Philip Haigh New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test RAIL 997 26 The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
Translations
period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, 1945–1991
Afrikaans: af Koue Oorlog
Albanian: sq lufta e ftohtë f
Amharic: am ቅዝቃዛው ጦርነት
Arabic: ar الْحَرْب الْبَارِدَة f
Aragonese: an Guerra Fría f
Armenian: hy սառը պատերազմ
Azerbaijani: az Soyuq Müharibə
Basque: eu Gerra Hotza
Belarusian: be хало́дная вайна́ f
Bengali: bn স্নায়ুযুদ্ধ
Breton: br Brezel yen
Bulgarian: bg студе́на война́ f
Burmese: my စစ်အေး
Catalan: ca Guerra Freda f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 冷戰 lěngzhàn, cmn 美蘇冷戰 Měi-Sū lěngzhàn
Czech: cs studená válka f
Danish: da den kolde krig n
Dutch: nl Koude Oorlog m
Esperanto: eo Malvarma milito
Estonian: et Külm sõda
Faroese: fo kalda kríggið n
Finnish: fi kylmä sota
French: fr Guerre froide f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Kâlde Kriich m
Galician: gl Guerra fría f
Georgian: ka ცივი ომი
German: de Kalter Krieg m
Greek: el ψυχρός πόλεμος m
Hebrew: he מלחמה קרה milkhamah karah f
Hindi: hi शीतयुद्ध m
Hungarian: hu hidegháború
Icelandic: is Kalda stríðið n
Ido: io Kolda milito
Indonesian: id Perang Dingin
Irish: ga Cogadh Fuar m
Italian: it Guerra fredda f
Japanese: ja 米ソ冷戦 Bei-So reisen, ja 冷戦 れいせん, reisen
Javanese: jv Perang Dingin
Kazakh: kk Қырғи қабақ соғысы
Khmer: km សង្គ្រាមត្រជាក់ sɑŋkriem trɑceak
Korean: ko 냉전(冷戰)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Şerê Sar
Lao: lo ສົງຄາມເຢັນ
Latin: la Bellum Frigidum n
Latvian: lv Aukstais karš
Lithuanian: lt Šaltasis karas
Low German: nds Koolt Krieg m
Macedonian: mk Студена војна f
Malay: ms Perang Dingin
Malayalam: ml ശീതയുദ്ധം
Marathi: mr शीतयुद्ध n
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Хүйтэн дайн
Mongolian script: mn ᠬᠦᠢᠲᠡᠨ ᠳᠠᠢᠢᠨ
Norman: nrf Fraide Dgèrre f
Norwegian: no Den kalde krigen
Occitan: oc Guèrra Freja f
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk жимна война f
Persian: fa جنگ سرد jang-e sard
Polish: pl zimna wojna f
Portuguese: pt Guerra Fria f
Punjabi: pa ਸ਼ੀਤ ਜੰਗ
Romanian: ro Războiul Rece
Russian: ru холо́дная война́ f
Scottish Gaelic: gd An Cogadh Fuar
Serbo-Croatian: sh хладни рат m, sh hladni rat m
Sicilian: scn Guerra Fridda f
Slovak: sk studená vojna f
Slovene: sl hladna vojna f
Somali: so Dagaalkii qaboobaa
Spanish: es Guerra Fría f
Swedish: sv kalla kriget n
Tagalog: tl Digmaang Malamig
Tajik: tg Ҷaнги Сард
Tamil: ta பனிப்போர்
Telugu: te ప్రచ్ఛన్నయుద్ధము
Thai: th สงครามเย็น
Turkish: tr Soğuk Savaş
Tuvan: tyv Соок Дайын
Ukrainian: uk холо́дна війна́ f
Urdu: ur سَرْد جَن٘گ f sard jang
Uyghur: ug سوغۇق ئۇرۇش
Uzbek: uz Sovuq urush
Venetan: vec Guera Freda f
Vietnamese: vi Chiến tranh Lạnh, vi chiến tranh lạnh
Welsh: cy Y Rhyfel Oer
Yiddish: yi קאַלטער קריג m
See also
en War on Terrorism
References
Further reading
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