the Cold War

noun

: the nonviolent conflict between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union after 1945

the era of the Cold War

Examples of the Cold War in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The entertainment industry has grappled with the threat of nuclear war since the Cold War. —Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024

By Jon Herskovitz and Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg May 8, 2024 12:35 AM EDT Kim Ki Nam, a propaganda mastermind who helped forge the cult of personality for the family dynasty that has ruled North Korea since its founding in the Cold War, has died at the age of 94. —TIME, 8 May 2024

This accelerated with globalization after the end of the Cold War and the onset of atomization with the arrival of the smartphone (that prodigious generator of status anxiety), leading to more unequal, more polarized, more fretful societies. —Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024

Indeed, the concept dates back to the 1960s, when the social psychologist William McGuire sought to understand people’s susceptibility to propaganda during the Cold War and whether they could be defended against it. —Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 25 Apr. 2024

In addition to strengthening its military, which was downsized after the Cold War as Sweden bet on a peaceful future, the country needs to upgrade ports, roads, rail networks, hospitals and shelters. —Lars Paulsson, Fortune Europe, 24 Apr. 2024

In the years leading up to Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine, whose territory had been the major defensive line between the Soviets and the West during the Cold War, had abolished the draft, and its standing army had shrunk to tiny levels. —Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024

The series’ setting is vaguely Europe-inspired and takes its design cues from World War II and its story beats from the Cold War. —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (Netflix), 378 million 8. —Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024