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The most important source of information on US diplomatic relations during the Cold War is the central foreign policy file of the Department of State (RG 59). For the post-World War II period, the central foreign policy file consists of the decimal file, 1945-63, and its successor, the subject-numeric file, 1963-73. Both series have been organized according to complex arrangement schemes. The decimal file, for example, is subdivided into chronological blocks (1945-49, 1950-54, 1955-59, and 1960-63), and then arranged according to a State Department-devised subject and country file classification system that underwent major revision in 1950. Current NARA holdings of the subject- numeric file are ... subdivided into chronological segments (1963 and 1964-66, 1967-69, and 1970-73), and arranged thereunder according to a more complicated State Department alphanumeric subject and country file-coding scheme. To assist researchers with these arrangement systems, the Textual Archives Services Division (Civilian) (see Appendix II) maintains State Department file manuals and NARA informational handouts that facilitate access to documents in both of these series.
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defence spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.
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During the Cold War years, many in Congress perceived a conspiracy of the world Communist movement to affect overthrow of the US Government. No less than three Congressional committees conducted investigations of Communist infiltration of government, the professions, the arts, and various social movements. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created as a special committee in 1938 but redefined as a standing committee in 1945, became the most famous committee to investigate Communist and other subversive activities. Its investigations included the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild in 1947 and the Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers hearings in 1948. In 1950 Congress passed the Internal Security Act (McCarran Act) to control subversive activities in the United States. Shortly thereafter, the Senate created the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) to administer the McCarran Act and other internal security laws.
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The Cold War began after World War Two. The main enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly. In such a "hot war," nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They supported conflicts in different parts of the world.
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The Cold War describes the ways of fighting between the western and the eastern countries between the 1950s and the 1990s (particularly between NATO and the countries of the Warsaw Pact and other communist countries). The fight between those two parts of the world never shaped into a direct armed conflict, but was waged through intermediary countries and spies and traitors working undercover. The Korean War, the Vietnam War and the conflicts in Afghanistan, Grenada, Chad, Angola, Cuba and of course the Middle East were aspects of the Cold War. The war was ... fought by intelligence organizations like the CIA (United States), MI6 (Great Britain), Mossad (Israel), BND (West Germany), STASI (East Germany) and the KGB (USSR).
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George Clooney, who ... serves as executive producer, reunites with his former ``ER'' co-star Noah Wyle, in the suspenseful drama in which Cold War tensions climb over a botched military exercise. In the movie, Clooney will play Colonel Jack Grady, a U.S. Air Force pilot who is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow. Wyle will portray Buck, a young translator for the U.S. President (played by Richard Dreyfuss), responsible for communicating his messages to the Russian Chairman. The story follows American military experts and heads of state as they tentatively team with their Russian counterparts and plunge into a crisis of split-second decision-making -- until time runs out.
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