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Also that day U.S. President George H. W. Bush, after receiving a phone call from Boris Yeltsin [citation needed], delivers a Christmas Day speech acknowledging the end of the Cold War. [86] December 26: The Council of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dissolves the Soviet Union. The United States became the world's only superpower.
1956 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Soviet Union State Protection Authority: Hungarian revolutionaries 1956 1956 1956 Poznań protests: Poland: Strike Committee 1956 1956 Suez Crisis. Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel [12] United Kingdom France: Egypt [13] 1956 1956 Quỳnh Lưu uprising. Part of the Vietnam War. North Vietnam: Anti ...
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]
Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.
1988: Panama: In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as the United States increased pressure on Panamanian head of state General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to "further safeguard the canal, U.S. lives, property and interests in the area." The forces supplemented ...
Major crises of this phase included the Berlin Blockade of 1948–1949, the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1945–1949, the Korean War of 1950–1953, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Suez Crisis of that same year, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Vietnam War of 1955–1975.
But in mid-February, 1899, 126 years ago this week, America was in the heart of what weather historian Christopher Burt considers "the greatest cold wave in modern U.S. history."
October 17 – The Game of the Century: 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats GM Donald Byrne in the NY Rosenwald chess tournament. October 29 – The Huntley-Brinkley Report debuts on NBC -TV. October 31 – A U.S. Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air) and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen ...