Cold Wars
- Rome and Carthage, Mid 3rd century BC-146 BC: The main contest regarding Mediterranean dominance, often being fought through the Punic Wars.
- 92 BC–627: Relations between the Roman Republic and Empire and their successor the Byzantine Empire on the one hand and the Parthian Empire and its Sassanid successor on the other, could be characterized as decades of cold war interspersed with outbursts of direct warfare. Known as the Roman–Persian Wars, that ancient cold war had most of the above-mentioned characteristics of modern ones, such as war by proxy involving such satellites as Armenia and various pre-Islamic Arab tribes.
- 1608–1755: The war for control of North America between the British and French
- The Great Game, 1813-1907: Geopolitical conflict between the Russian and British Empires over influence in Central Asia.
- 1892–1914: France and the Russian Empire vs. Germany and Austria–Hungary set off by the formation of the German Empire, which politically and geographically challenged the older empires of Europe, and the fall of Otto von Bismarck, whose system of alliances placated the major powers about the potential danger of Germany.
- 1923–present: Greece vs. Turkey (see Cyprus dispute), set off by the post–World War I political troubles left from the defunct Ottoman Empire
- 1947–1991: United States vs. Soviet Union - the Cold War set off by the ideological and political differences of the victors of World War II
- 1949–1979: United States vs. People's Republic of China (see Sino-American relations), part of the Cold War
- 1949–present: People's Republic of China vs. Taiwan (see Political status of Taiwan), set off by the Chinese Civil War's conclusion.
- 1953–present: North Korea vs. South Korea (see Korean reunification), set off by the conclusion of the Korean War
- 1962–present: United States vs. Cuba (see Cuba – United States relations)
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Famous quotes containing the words cold wars, cold and/or wars:
“Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it’s just a cold one.
Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can’t lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
Professor: I’m afraid we’re already doing that.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)
“Then with the careless energy
Of a dream, the forward curse
Of a cold particular eye
In the headlong hearse.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“... the trouble is that most people in this country think that we can stay out of wars in other parts of the world. Even if we stay out of it and save our own skins, we cannot escape the conditions which will undoubtedly exist in other parts of the world and which will react against us.... We are all of us selfish ... and if we can save our own skins, the rest of the world can go. The best we can do is to realize nobody can save his own skin alone. We must all hang together.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)