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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.
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 ...
The Cold War is considered to have "officially" ended on 3 December 1989 during the ... Restoration of Independence Day in Latvia commemorates the 1990 declaration ...
The Cold War would end, at least in that form, but so would the dominance of the Big Three networks – and the prevalence of shared viewing experiences – that “The Day After” so vividly ...
Six-Day War: June 5, 1967: June 10, 1967 Israel: Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Saudi Arabia: Western Asia: Nigerian Civil War: July 5, 1967: January 13, 1970 [3] Nigeria: Biafra: West Africa War of Attrition: July 1, 1967: August 7, 1970 Israel Egypt Soviet Union PLO Jordan Syria Cuba Kuwait: Western Asia: Communist Insurgency in Malaysia: June 17 ...
Independence restored after Spanish reconquest, Initial independence in 1810. September 28, 1821 ... Germany reunified after Cold War-era division.
1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. 1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.