Cold War
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See also: cold war
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkoʊld ˈwɔɹ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Proper noun[edit]
- (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.
- 1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’[2], Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul Broadcasting System, archived from the original on 09 October 2017[3]:
- 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.
- 2005, Tony Judt, “The Politics of Stability”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 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[edit]
period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, 1945–1991
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References[edit]
- ^ William Safire (2006 October 1) “Language: Islamofascism, anyone?”, in International Herald Tribune[1], Paris: International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 March 2022.
Further reading[edit]
Cold War on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - cold war (term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “cold war, n.” under “cold, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022. - “cold war, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
