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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).
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological dominance 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.
After 1947, with the Cold War emerging in Europe, Washington made repeated efforts to encourage all the Latin American countries to take a Cold War anti-Communist position. They were reluctant to do so—for example, only Colombia sent soldiers to the United Nations Command in the Korean War. The Soviet Union was quite weak across Latin America.
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 Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2010). popular; Matlock, Jack F. Autopsy on an Empire (1995) online by US ambassador to Moscow; Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev : how the Cold War ended (2004) online; Powaski, Ronald E. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (1998) Romero ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials ...
Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1945 1949 1945 Khuzestan revolt [1] Iran: Khuzestan rebels 1945 1950 Crusader insurgency Yugoslavia: Crusaders: 1945 1949 Chinese Civil War (second phase) Chinese Communist Party People's Republic of China (after 1949) Supported by ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev ...