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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This post is a comprehensive timeline of the Cold War, from the origins of the Russian-American conflict following World War Two to the final dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 20th century.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
Following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 near the close of World War II, the uneasy wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel.
Timeline of the Cold War 1945 Defeat of Germany and Japan February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three' Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
Understand the complete Cold War timeline, starting with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and tracing events up to the 1991 dissolution of the USSR.
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States....
October 24, 1948: Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the hostilities that exist between the West, led by the United States, and the East, led by the Soviet Union. November 11, 1948 : Manchuria gets overrun and captured by the Chinese communist forces.
Take a look at a Cold War timeline that details the key conflicts and events of the mid-20th century. Toward the end of World War II in 1945, Germany found itself facing the Allied forces of the world, including both the U.S. and the USSR.
These are the steps that brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in 1962. The Cold War between Communist‑bloc nations and Western allies defined postwar...