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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.
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.
China (PRC) (to 1988) [220] Democratic Kampuchea (to 1979) Khmer Rouge (1980 to 1981) Party of Democratic Kampuchea (1981 to 1990) Thailand (Rightists: early to mid-1980s) (Hmong: to 1990) United States (Hmong: 1990) Neo Hom (support, 1981–2008) [221] [222] Royal Lao Government in Exile Various Hmong exiles. Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict ...
The Hungarian People's Republic [a] (HPR) [6] was the government of Hungary during the Cold War.It was a professed communist state, governed first by the Hungarian Working People's Party and after a revolution in 1956, the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.
About 3.5 million people left the GDR for West Germany before the building of the Berlin Wall and the Inner German border in August 1961. After that it was still possible to leave legally, by applying for and receiving an Ausreiseantrag (permission to leave). Between 1961 and 1988 about 383,000 people left this way. [27] [Note 1]
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 ...
Western analysts suggest that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War, only five or six of the post-communist states are on a path to joining the rich and capitalist world while most are falling behind, some to such an extent that it will take several decades to catch up to where they were before the collapse of communism. [340] [341]