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While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks). [1] [2]
Conflict that are connected to or took place within the larger context of the Cold War. Subcategories This category has the following 70 subcategories, out of 70 total.
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).
End of the Cold War – While many observers state the 1989 Malta Summit was the end of the Cold War, it was December 1991 before the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union formally recognized the conflict's end, with the Soviet Union also being dissolved at that time. Some key events leading up to the end include:
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.
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Pages in category "Military operations of the Cold War" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis (2007) Lawrence, Mark Atwood, ed. The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (2014) Roberts, Priscilla. Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War (2006) Smith, R.B. An International History of the Vietnam War(2 vol 1985) Zhai, Qiang.