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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States 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.
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 (1953–1962) ... United Fruit had long monopolized the transportation and communications region there, along with the main export commodities, and ...
Cold War (Indirect War) 1946: 1991: 45 years Chadian Civil Wars: 1965: 2010: 45 years Assam separatist movements: 1979: Ongoing: 46 years Kongo Civil War: 1665: 1709: 44 years Internal conflict in Peru: 17 May 1980: Ongoing: 44 years, 7 months and 4 weeks Maoist insurgency in Turkey: 12 September 1980: Ongoing: 44 years, 4 months and 2 days ...
Cold War organizations – throughout the Cold War a series of organizations were created to either further the goals of individual and groups of states, or to act as intermediaries in reducing the tension. NATO - Formed 1949; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization - Formed 1954, disbanded 1977; Middle East Treaty Organization - Formed 1955 ...
War in the context of this list is broadly construed to be a direct armed conflict between organized U.S. military forces and organized forces of (a) belligerent(s). (Note: Ongoing wars are indicated in bold and with red bars.)
The Cold War (1962–1979) ... to prop up the faltering anticommunist regime. The South Vietnamese government had long been allied with the United States.
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.