The Third Cold War is a conflict during the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half … The Cold War Presidents (1945 - 1991) Nine US Presidents were in office during the precarious period in history known as the Cold War. There are warlike conflicts that last for decades, leave thousands of victims, and set the whole world on fire. It was a political and economic stuggle between these nations. The issue took on increased significance when the growing militarism of American policy led the Soviets to believe that the Cold War was about to be won or lost in the Third World. Some Characteristics of the Cold War Were the use of nuclear weapons, indirect conflicts and the division of the world into two blocks.. The first phase of the Cold War began immediately after the end of the Second World War. The Cold War & the Third World Michael J. Brenner ▪ July – August 1969 The Cold War is demonstrating greater longevity as an idea than as a political fact. Consequently, America believed that the Cold War would be won or lost in the Third World. As nearly all the colonial states achieved independence in the period 1945–1960, they became Third World battlefields in the Cold War. While the storyline of The Third Man contains no overt political themes, its depiction of Vienna in the first years of the Cold War is compelling. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. The rivalry between the two superpowers quickly spread to the rest of the world. The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World.Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. "Cold War" is the eighth episode of the seventh series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In terms of the “worlds” system, they are ranked from first world to third world. Both the United States and the Soviet Union, backed by their respective allies, competed intensively for influence over the new nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. It is also loaded with metaphor. The Third World in the Cold War has become one of the most dynamic areas of current historical scholarship Since the publication of Odd Arne Westad’s The Global Cold War in 2007, new histories of the Cold War nearly always address the spread of the conflict into the former Third World. This was followed by a period of renewed Cold War tensions in the early 1980s as the two superpowers continued their massive arms buildup and competed for influence in the Third World.