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The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Thailand, Laos, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Taiwan (Republic of China).
The bamboo curtain was a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China and the capitalist states of East, South and Southeast Asia. To the north and northwest lay the communist states of: China, Russia (the Soviet Union before A.D. 1991), North Vietnam, North Korea and the Mongolian ...
This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia.For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia Pacific. see List of conflicts in the Near East for historical conflicts and List of conflicts in the Middle East, List of conflicts in Australia (related Asia Pacific) for contemporary conflicts.
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: 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 ...
Cold War organizations – throughout the Cold War a series of organizations were created to either further the goals of individual and groups of states, or to act as intermediaries in reducing the tension. NATO - Formed 1949; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization - Formed 1954, disbanded 1977; Middle East Treaty Organization - Formed 1955 ...
NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...
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).
English: World map in 1980, during the later stages of the Cold War. Español: Guerra Fria ... File:Cold War Map 1959.svg - 1959 Cold War map; Maps of world history: BC: