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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).
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) ... as was the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, which ended in a stalemate.
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
While Europe remained a central concern for both sides throughout the Cold War, by the end of the 1950s the situation was frozen. Alliance obligations and the concentration of forces in the region meant that any incident could potentially lead to an all-out war, and both sides thus worked to maintain the status quo.
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).
Lee–Enfield [1] – Main service rifle until the 1950s and afterwards adapted for a variety of specialist roles. EM-2 rifle [2] – Experimental rifle adopted very briefly in 1951. L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle [3] – Main Cold War service rifle from 1954 to 1994. SA80 L85 rifle [4] – Adopted right at the end of the Cold War in 1987.
The Cold War (1948–1953) ... In early 1950, the U.S. took its first efforts to oppose communist forces in Vietnam; planned to form a West German army, and prepared ...
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...