Cold War

Participants

• United States Western Bloc
• United Kingdom Western Bloc
• France Western Bloc
• Germany Western Bloc — West Germany
• NATO Western Bloc
• Soviet Union Eastern Bloc
• People's Republic of China Eastern Bloc — Allied with the Soviet Union until the Sino-Soviet split
• Cuba Eastern Bloc

Battles and events 24

• First Indochina War December 19, 1946 – August 1, 1954

  • Battle of Route Coloniale 4 September 16 – October 18, 1950
  • Battle of Hòa Bình November 10, 1951 – February 25, 1952
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu March 13 – May 7, 1954
• 1949 Syrian coup d'état March 29, 1949
• 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état June 18–27, 1954
• Algerian War of Independence November 1, 1954 – March 19, 1962

  • Toussaint Rouge November 1, 1954
  • Philippeville massacre August 20–25, 1955
  • Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) January 7 – October 8, 1957
  • Challe Plan February 1, 1959 – April 1, 1961
• Sino-Soviet split 1956 – 1966
• Hungarian Revolution of 1956 October 23 – November 10, 1956
• Suez Crisis October 29 – November 7, 1956
• Laotian Civil War May 23, 1959 – December 2, 1975
• Congo Crisis July 5, 1960 – November 25, 1965

  • Assassination of Patrice Lumumba January 17, 1961
• Bay of Pigs Invasion April 17–20, 1961
• Sino-Indian War October 20 – November 21, 1962
• Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty August 5, 1963
• Cambodian Civil War March 11, 1967 – April 17, 1975
• Bangladesh War of Independence March 26 – December 16, 1971

  • Battle of Garibpur November 20–21, 1971
  • Battle of Hilli November 22 – December 18, 1971
  • Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 December 3–16, 1971

    • Battle of Garibpur November 20–21, 1971
    • Battle of Hilli November 22 – December 18, 1971
    • Battle of Longewala December 4–7, 1971
    • Battle of Basantar December 4–16, 1971
    • Operation Trident (1971) December 4–5, 1971
    • Pakistani Instrument of Surrender December 16, 1971
• Nixon's visit to China February 21–28, 1972
• Helsinki Accords August 1, 1975
• Angolan Civil War November 11, 1975 – April 4, 2002
• Mozambican Civil War May 30, 1977 – October 4, 1992
• Cambodian–Vietnamese War December 21, 1978 – September 26, 1989
• Sino-Vietnamese War February 17 – March 16, 1979
• Reykjavík Summit October 11–12, 1986
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty December 8, 1987
• 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre April 15 – June 4, 1989
• Romanian Revolution December 16–27, 1989

Also involved 22

Konstantin Chernenko General Secretary of the CPSU · Eastern Bloc Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba · Eastern Bloc John Foster Dulles Secretary of State · Western Bloc Dean Acheson Secretary of State, Shaped containment and NATO · Western Bloc Henry Kissinger National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Détente · Western Bloc Yuri Andropov General Secretary of the CPSU · Eastern Bloc Charles de Gaulle President of France · Western Bloc George F. Kennan Diplomat, Author of the Long Telegram and the containment doctrine · Western Bloc Andrei Gromyko Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union · Eastern Bloc Jimmy Carter President · Western Bloc Konrad Adenauer Chancellor of West Germany · Western Bloc Willy Brandt Chancellor of West Germany, Ostpolitik · Western Bloc Helmut Kohl Chancellor of Germany, German reunification · Western Bloc John Paul II Pope, Supported Solidarity in Poland Lech Wałęsa Leader of Solidarity Kim Il-sung participant · Eastern Bloc Nikolai Bulganin participant · Eastern Bloc Charles P. Cabell participant · Western Bloc Frederick M. Franks Jr. participant · Western Bloc Lavrentiy Beria participant Maxwell R. Thurman participant · Western Bloc Gordon R. Sullivan participant