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Toggle 1950s subsection. 2.1 1950. 2.2 1951. 2.3 1952. ... This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, ... resulting in the 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident.
The Congo Crisis in 1960 drew Cold War battle lines in Africa, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo became a Soviet ally, causing concern in the West. [3] However, by the early 1960s, the Cold War reached its most dangerous point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.
The Sino-Soviet split was one of the key events of the Cold War, ... of World War II and sustained strong economic growth through the 1950s and 1960s, ...
1950 1950 APRA coup d'état Part of the Indonesian National Revolution Indonesia Netherlands: Legion of the Just Ruler: 1950 1950 Makassar Uprising Part of the Indonesian National Revolution Indonesia: East Indonesia: 1950 1950 La Revolución del 50 Peru: Rebels 25 June 1950, 27 July 1953 [5] Korean War Part of the Korean conflict
May 5, 1950: May 6, 1950: Civilians led by Ale Čović and Milan Božić Yugoslavia. Yugoslav People's Army; Southeast Europe: Albanian–Yugoslav border conflict: 1948: 1954 Yugoslavia. Yugoslav People's Army; Albania. Albanian People's Army; Southeast Europe: Korean War: June 25, 1950: July 27, 1953 South Korea United Nations United States
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The Cold War reached its most dangerous point during the Kennedy administration in the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis began on October 16, 1962, and lasted for thirteen days.
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.