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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).
Kingdom of Cambodia (1968–1970) Khmer Republic (1970–1975) United States South Vietnam: Khmer Rouge GRUNK (1970–1975) FUNK Khmer Rumdo North Vietnam Viet Cong: Southeast Asia: 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 ...
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History; The Last Days of World War II; Last Stand of the 300; Lee and Grant; Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live; Legacy of Star Wars; Liberty's Kids; Life After People; The Lincoln Assassination; Live From '69: Moon Landing; Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey; The Long March; The Lost Evidence; The Lost Kennedy Home ...
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 ...
Cold War – period of political and military tension that occurred 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 and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common.
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
1989 – President Bush declares a "War on Drugs." 1989 – The animated television sitcom The Simpsons debuts on Fox. 1989 – President Bush and Soviet Premier Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end. Symbolic elsewhere around the world was the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany.
History Rocks is a non-fiction educational television series shown on the History Channel. Each episode explains eight historical events, arranged by decade, through multimedia presentations consisting of photographs, archival footage, popular music and pop-up trivia. Six episodes were produced, with two focusing on 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.