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in their struggle for global influence they engaged in ongoing psychological warfare and in regular indirect confrontations through proxy wars. Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension which could have led to war

The most tense involved the Berlin Blockade

The conflict was expressed through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to client states, espionage, massive propaganda campaigns, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race

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wave of revolutions which culminated in the collapse of the Soviet Union

man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other populist species to take over

We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity

The first use of the term is attributed to Bernard Baruch

The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the intensely patriotic years of World War I as anarchist and left-wing social agitation aggravated national, social, and political tensions

a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent—a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life