Sputnik Escalates the Cold War
Teaser Image

Václav Havel



Václav Havel is one of Europe's best-known playwrights and essayists. He was also a leading political dissident under the communist government of Czechoslovakia. During 1993–2003 he was the first president of the Czech Republic.

[Embassy of the Czech Republic/Alan Pajer]

 

©2011 ABC-CLIO. All rights reserved.

RELATED ENTRIES
  About the Author/Editor
  Introduction
ABC-CLIO's The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History
  Essays
  A
  B
  C
  D
  E
  F
  G
  H
  I
  J
  K
  L
  M
  N
  O
  P
  Q
  R
  S
  T
  U
  V
  W
  Y
  Z
  Z
  Documents
  Images
Abrams, Creighton
Acheson, Dean G.
Adenauer, Konrad
Adenauer, Konrad visits troops
Afghan resistance fighters
Allied occupation of Germany
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Anticommunist uprising in Poland
Antiwar movement
Antonescu, Ion
Apollo 11 launch
Aquino, Corazon
Assad, Hafez
Atlas missile test launch
Atomic cannon
Attlee, Clement
B-52G Stratofortress
Baker, James, III
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo
Bao Dai
Baudouin I
Ben-Gurion, David
Beneš, Edvard
Beria, Lavrenty
Bevin, Ernest
Bierut, Boleslaw
Bohlen, Charles E.
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Brandt, Willy
Braun, Wernher von
Bretton Woods Conference
British Challenger tank
Bruce, David
Bundy, McGeorge
Bush, George H. W. signs Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Bush, George Herbert Walker
Byrnes, James F.
Camp David Accords signed
Camus, Albert
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Jimmy and Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II
Casey, William J., Jr.
Castro, Fidel
Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru
Celebration of founding of the People's Republic of China
Central Intelligence Agency headquarters
Chambers, Whittaker
Checkpoint Charlie
Chinese Navy
Chinese People's Liberation Army poster
Chinese soldier in Tibet
Chirac, Jacques
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Mark Wayne
Clay, Lucius D.
Clement Atlee addresses United Nations
Clifford, Clark
Collective farm
Command center of North American Air Defense Command
Communist troops in Laos, 1959
Congo volunteers
Cuban Missile Crisis reconnaissance photo
Cuban Revolution
Dalai Lama
De Gasperi, Alcide
de Gaulle, Charles
De Valera, Eamon
Delta rocket lifts off
Dewey, Thomas E.
Diem, Ngo Dinh reviews troops
Dimitrov, Georgi
Doe, Samuel
Dominican Republic
Dulles, Allen Welsh
Dulles, John Foster
Dylan, Bob and Joan Baez
Eden, Anthony
Eden, Anthony and Max Petitpierre in Geneva
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Erhard, Ludwig
European Union flag
Execution of Chinese landowner
F-4 Phantom II aircraft
F-86 airplanes on the flight line
F-86 Sabre
Family digs fallout shelter
FBI students learn self defense tactics
Flamethrower tank
Ford, Gerald
Franco, Francisco
Fuchs, Klaus
Gagarin, Yuri
Gandhi, Indira
Goldwater, Barry
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gottwald, Klement
Grenadians watch patrol
Haig, Alexander
Hammer, Armand
Harriman, W. Averell
Hassan II, King
Havel, Václav
Helicopter sprays Agent Orange in Vietnam
Hellman, Lillian
Herter, Christian A.
Ho Chi Minh
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hull, Cordell
Hussein I, King of Jordan: with Christian Herter
Hydrogen bomb test: IVY MIKE
Inchon Landing
Indochina War
Inside missile silo
Jackie Robinson on Voice of America
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
Jerusalem, 1948
Jiang Jieshi
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Karamanlis, Konstantinos
Kashmir
Kennan, George F.
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kenyatta, Jomo
Khrushchev, Nikita
Killing fields skulls in Cambodia
Kim Il Sung
King, Mackenzie
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kissinger, Henry
Kohl, Helmut
Korean Airlines Flight 007
Korolev, Sergei
Kosygin, Alexei Nikolayevich
Kuwaiti oil wells
Laos: Soviet armored car
Leahy, William D.
LeMay, Curtis
Lippmann, Walter
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
Long-range, nuclear weapons capable aircraft
Lovett, Robert
Lumumba, Patrice
Maastricht Treaty
MacArthur, Douglas
Macmillan, Harold
Makarios III
Malcolm X
Malraux, Georges-André
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev
Marcos, Ferdinand
Mariel Boatlift
Marine Corps patrol
Marshall Plan benefits nylon factory
Marshall Plan in Italy
Marshall, George C.
Mau Mau warriors renounce oath
McCarthy, Joseph delivers televised speech
McGovern, George
McNamara, Robert
Mendès-France, Pierre
Minesweeping
Mitterrand, François
Mobutu, Joseph
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Monnet, Jean
Moon landing
Mountbatten, Louis
Mulroney, Brian
Multiple Reentry Vehicles
MX Missile (Peacekeeper MGM-118A)
Nagasaki bombing
Nagy, Imre
NATO troops participate in exercise
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Netherlands
Nguyen Van Thieu
Nikita Khrushchev visits space control center
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard
Nixon, Richard and Leonid Brezhnev
Nixon, Richard boarding helicopter after resigning
Nkrumah, Kwame sworn in as president
Nobel Peace Prize
Norstad, Lauris
North American Aerospace Command (NORAD)
North Atlantic Treaty
North Korean defectors
North Korean poster
Nuclear preparedness
Nuclear test site
Nuclear-powered submarine
Nyerere, Julius
Operation DESERT STORM
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Pakistani independence
Panama Canal Treaties
Paris Peace Conference (1946)
Partial Test Ban Treaty
Paul VI, Pope
Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile
Pearson, Lester
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier
Perón, Eva
Pius XII
Point Four Program: nurse visits family
Polaris missile
Rákosi, Mátyás
Reagan, Ronald
Reagan, Ronald with Margaret Thatcher
Rebuilding West Berlin
Red Square military parade
Red Square parade
Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
Rhee, Syngman with Douglas MacArthur
Ridgway, Matthew Bunker
Rogers, William Pierce
Romania: The House of the People and fountain in Bucharest
Roosevelt, Franklin D. delivers fireside chat
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Rusk, Dean
Sadat, Anwar
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satellite, first U.S.
Saudi Arabian Supertankers
Schweitzer, Albert
Shevardnadze, Eduard
Sihanouk, Norodom
Six-Day War: boat passing through Straits of Tiran
Smith, Walter Bedell
Soldier fires M-16
Soldiers with a dead comrade
South African segregation
Soviet FROG-7 missile
Soviet Kynda-class warship
Soviet MiG-15 aircraft
Soviet sailors
Soviet stamp
Soviet T-55 tank
Soviet tanks in Budapest
Soviet troops
Soviet Tupolev TU-95 strategic bomber
Soviet Union: "Love Your Motherland" poster
Soviet Victor II class nuclear-powered submarine
Soviets in Afghanistan
Soyuz
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 2
Sputnik commemorative envelope
Sputnik commemorative postcard
Sputnik stamp, 1967
St. Peter's Basilica
Stalin, Josef
Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr.
Stimson, Henry L.
Taft, Robert
Taylor, Maxwell D.
Thatcher, Margaret
Tito, Josip Broz
Togliatti, Palmiro
Trujillo, Rafael
Truman, Harry
Turkey voters
Turkish fishermen
Twining, Nathan Farragut
U Thant
U-2 spy plane in flight
U.S. Army tank in Germany
U.S. Army tanks and helicopters
U.S. Marines in Lebanon (1958)
United Nations doctor
USS Enterprise
USS Long Beach
USS Pueblo
Uzi machine gun
Van Fleet, James Alward
Vance, Cyrus
Vienna Summit
Viet Cong land mines
Vietnamese boat people
Wałęsa, Lech
West German soldiers
West Germans peer over Berlin wall
Wheeler, Earle G.
Yalta Conference
Yom Kippur War
ABC-cLIO Footer