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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 Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
During the Cold War, the United States, its government, and its Western allies had the goal of halting the spread of communism and bringing countries into the sphere of Western Bloc influence. Britain had additional reasons for seeking Sukarno's removal, as his government was involved in an undeclared war with the neighbouring Malaysia , a ...
Cold War in Asia; 0–9. 1952 Habomai Islands RB-29 shootdown incident; 1968–1971 East Pakistan communist insurgency; 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état
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 ...
East Asian Cold War alliances in 1959. Note that at the time, Laos was allied with the United States, as the communist Pathet Lao did not take over the country, until 1975. Also, North and South Vietnams had not yet been united. The boundaries of the now-independent former Soviet republics are anachronistically shown for context.
US signals intelligence in the Cold War; Slavic-Eurasian Research Center; The Soviet Basic Thesis on the Middle East Conflict; Soviet empire; Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War; Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991; Space Race; Spies for Peace; Sputnik crisis; State continuity of the Baltic states; List of states ...
The Korean War marked a shift in the focal point of the Cold War, from postwar Europe to East Asia. After this point, in the wake of the disintegration of Europe's colonial empires, proxy battles in the Third World became an important arena of superpower competition in the establishment of alliances and jockeying for influence in these emerging ...