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January 16, 2008	WikiProject A-class review	Approved
May 28, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
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September 7, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 3, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
December 21, 2010	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
October 23, 2019	Good article reassessment	Delisted
November 25, 2019	WikiProject A-class review	Not approved
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Section sizes

Section size for Cold War (64 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,858	5,858
Terminology	1,915	1,915
Background and periodization	7,007	7,007
Containment, Truman Doctrine, Korean War (1947–1953)	157	36,833
Iron Curtain, Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Poland	7,511	7,511
Marshall Plan, Czechoslovak coup and formation of two German states	5,294	5,294
Espionage	7,182	7,182
Cominform and the Tito–Stalin Split	1,290	1,290
Berlin Blockade	3,202	3,202
Beginnings of NATO and Radio Free Europe	3,713	3,713
German rearmament	1,800	1,800
Chinese Civil War, SEATO, and NSC 68	2,730	2,730
Korean War	3,954	3,954
Nuclear Arms Race and escalation (1953–1962)	84	34,611
Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and de-Stalinization	3,797	3,797
Warsaw Pact and Hungarian Revolution	4,783	4,783
Rapacki Plan and Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959	1,199	1,199
American military buildup	1,726	1,726
Competition in the Third World	8,131	8,131
Sino-Soviet split	1,790	1,790
Space Race	5,272	5,272
Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution	3,260	3,260
Berlin Crisis of 1961	1,929	1,929
Cuban Missile Crisis and Khrushchev's ousting	2,640	2,640
From confrontation to détente (1962–1979)	2,257	22,313
Vietnam War	3,268	3,268
Nuclear testing and Use of Outer-Space treaties	3,310	3,310
Invasion of Czechoslovakia	2,251	2,251
Sino-Soviet split and Nixon-China visit	1,866	1,866
Nixon, Brezhnev, and détente	6,609	6,609
Late 1970s deterioration of relations	2,752	2,752
Renewal of tensions (1979–1985)	825	21,879
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and end of détente	4,889	4,889
Reagan and Thatcher	2,473	2,473
Polish Solidarity movement and martial law	1,769	1,769
US and USSR military and economic issues	11,923	11,923
Final years (1985–1991)	63	19,318
Gorbachev's reforms	2,502	2,502
Thaw in relations	4,448	4,448
Eastern Europe breaks away	6,280	6,280
Soviet dissolution	6,025	6,025
Aftermath	1,746	13,059
Decommunization	8,805	8,805
Collapse of Yugoslavia and Balkan conflicts	2,508	2,508
Influence	3,770	3,770
In popular culture	531	531
Historiography	1,724	1,724
See also	270	270
Notes and quotes	38	38
References	33	33
Sources	13	97,380
Books	67,322	67,322
Reports	3,425	3,425
Journal articles	10,889	10,889
Magazine articles	1,471	1,471
News articles	9,380	9,380
Web	4,880	4,880
Further reading	143	143
External links	220	3,291
Archives	898	898
Bibliography	199	199
Educational resource	159	159
News	415	415
Films	1,400	1,400
Total	269,973	269,973

Clear the gray part of the infobox of this page?

@The Banner here is the proposal: remove the gray apart of the infobox about cold War. The reason for doing this is the statement that cold War is not considered a part of the aftermath of ww2 but rather an independent time period where the war between ideologies ensues until the fall of USSR in 1991. 2404:C0:2F10:0:0:0:4460:A182 (talk) 13:45, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Just a statement, no sources or content-related arguments given. The Banner talk 15:43, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hohum, please cold war is an independent period, where it has own right to be a time era without worrying the fact it is part of the aftermath of world war 2. 182.253.54.117 (talk) 17:46, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missing reference

@User-duck: Your edit here added a reference — {{sfn|Singh|1995|p=130}} — that does not point to a citation. Can this error be fixed? —GoldRingChip 20:28, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I did not add the reference. I added the sfn template which allowed the CS1 software to report the ref error. Maybe you can track down the editor that added the ref. User-duck (talk) 22:46, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found in old page revision, also fixed year. (Hohum ^@) 16:39, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

3rd paragraph bad grammar; "rose to leader of the USSR"

idk sorry just has bad grammar 24.51.232.181 (talk) 13:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Typo in Espionage section; period should be a comma

In the Espionage section, the paragraph/sentence that begins, "According to historian Robert L. Benson..." should have a comma after "messages" instead of a period. Micahwierenga (talk) 14:45, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Yue🌙 19:23, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States History articles with to-do lists

I found this page through the category. I guess it used to have the template? (WP:TODO) This currently had a to do list page(Talk:Cold War/to do) - admittedly at the moment very sloppy. Maybe I would suggest near-blanking out the page and seeking consensual tasks? (alternatively maybe removing this page from the category?) User:Dwarf Kirlston - talk 04:50, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]