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January 16, 2008	WikiProject A-class review	Approved
May 28, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
July 9, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
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 (70 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,007	5,007
Origins of the term	2,712	2,712
Phases	7,015	7,015
Background	101	38,184
Russian Revolution	12,739	12,739
World War II	8,735	8,735
Wartime conferences regarding post-war Europe	7,153	7,153
Potsdam Conference and surrender of Japan	1,191	1,191
Postwar prelude and emergence of the two blocs (1945–1947)	8,265	8,265
Beginning of the Cold War, containment and the Truman Doctrine (1947–1953)	179	12,370
Iron Curtain, Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Poland	7,851	7,851
Marshall Plan, Czechoslovak coup d'état, and formation of two German states	4,340	4,340
Open hostility and escalation (1948–1962)	643	64,987
Espionage	9,356	9,356
Cominform and the Tito–Stalin Split	1,545	1,545
Berlin Blockade and Airlift	3,369	3,369
Beginnings of NATO and Radio Free Europe	4,019	4,019
German rearmament	2,294	2,294
Chinese Civil War, SEATO, and NSC 68	2,730	2,730
Korean War	5,531	5,531
Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and de-Stalinization	3,957	3,957
Warsaw Pact and Hungarian Revolution	4,374	4,374
Rapacki Plan and Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959	1,312	1,312
American military buildup	2,633	2,633
Competition in the Third World	7,915	7,915
Sino-Soviet split	2,177	2,177
Space Race	2,640	2,640
Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution	5,295	5,295
Berlin Crisis of 1961	1,929	1,929
Cuban Missile Crisis and Khrushchev's ousting	3,268	3,268
From confrontation to détente (1962–1979)	2,250	45,083
Vietnam War	3,932	3,932
French withdrawal from NATO military structures	1,275	1,275
Finlandization	4,940	4,940
Invasion of Czechoslovakia	2,105	2,105
Brezhnev Doctrine	998	998
Third World escalations	17,171	17,171
Sino-Soviet split and Nixon-China visit	1,216	1,216
Nixon, Brezhnev, and détente	8,212	8,212
Late 1970s deterioration of relations	2,984	2,984
New Cold War (1979–1985)	845	23,972
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and end of détente	7,546	7,546
Reagan and Thatcher	2,578	2,578
Polish Solidarity movement and martial law	1,268	1,268
US and USSR military and economic issues	11,735	11,735
Final years (1985–1991)	63	19,051
Gorbachev's reforms	2,502	2,502
Thaw in relations	3,453	3,453
Eastern Europe breaks away	6,250	6,250
Soviet dissolution	6,783	6,783
Aftermath	2,907	12,903
Decommunization	9,996	9,996
Influence	4,388	4,388
In popular culture	1,502	1,502
Historiography	1,849	1,849
See also	250	250
Footnotes	31	31
References	346	346
Sources	13	79,959
Books	56,594	56,594
Journals	4,075	4,075
News	11,695	11,695
Web	7,582	7,582
Further reading	143	143
External links	220	2,698
Archives	898	898
Bibliography	199	199
Educational resource	159	159
News	189	189
Films	1,033	1,033
Total	322,450	322,450

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