The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II , between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States. The primary participants' military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, a nuclear arms race, espionage, proxy wars, propaganda, and technological competition.Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from unwarranted government action and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.The impact of foreign affairs on U.S. civil rights policy during the early years of the Cold War .The U.S. took on the mantle of world leadership, yet, at the same time, the nation found itself subject to increasing international criticism.

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

• Publisher is Princeton University Press
• Published in January 2002
• Number of pages is 344pp
• This is the 1st edition 

Contents 

1. Coming to Terms with Cold War Civil Rights
2. Telling Stories about Race and Democracy
3. Fighting the Cold War with Civil Rights Reform
4. Holding the Line in Little Rock
5. Losing Control in Ca
6. Shifting the Focus of America's Image Abroad 

The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, annexing some as Soviet Socialist Republics and maintaining others as satellite states, some of which were later consolidated as the Warsaw Pact.