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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 rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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:
Civil War Era (1849–1865) Third Party System (1856–1896) Civil War Era (1849–1865) Reconstruction era (1865–1877) (Some of this time period is known as the "Old West".) Gilded Age (1877–1896) Fourth Party System (1896–1932) Progressive Era (1896–1917) United States in World War I (1917–1918) Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
This is not a cold war; this is a hot war — and it directly involves one of the great powers.” John Lewis Gaddis, historian, to the Los Angeles Times The threat of nuclear conflict, the Cold ...
During the first Cold War between communist U.S.S.R and the capitalist U.S., the conflict became "hot" during the Korean War in 1950. The Korean War was a significant point as the two countries ...
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.