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Date: 1947 - 1991. Participants: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Soviet Union. United States. Warsaw Treaty Organization. Context: international relations. Major Events: Cuban missile crisis. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Berlin crisis of 1961. collapse of the Soviet Union. (Show more) Key People: Dean Acheson.
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).
This post is a comprehensive timeline of the Cold War, from the origins of the Russian-American conflict following World War Two to the final dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 20th century.
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union 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.
Timeline of the Cold War 1945 Defeat of Germany and Japan February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three' Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
The Cold War era was replete with iconic images and moments (Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on a desk at the United Nations, bearded Fidel Castro in military fatigues, East Germans scurrying under, over, or through the Berlin Wall to freedom in West Berlin) and landmark events.
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States.
The Cold War between Communist‑bloc nations and Western allies defined postwar politics. Learn about the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, NATO, the Space Race and more.
October 24, 1948: Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the hostilities that exist between the West, led by the United States, and the East, led by the Soviet Union. November 11, 1948: Manchuria gets overrun and captured by the Chinese communist forces.
Understand the complete Cold War timeline, starting with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and tracing events up to the 1991 dissolution of the USSR.