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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.
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 ...
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c. 3100 BCE Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt; c. 3050 BCE Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians. c. 2890 BCE After the death of Qa'a, the last pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, a short war may have occurred for the throne, ending with the accession of Hotepsekhemwy.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...