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  2. Timeline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Outline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    Origins of the Cold War – the Cold war was a major part of the aftermath of World War II, and was caused by frictions in the relations between the Soviet Union and the allies (United States, United Kingdom, and France) that emerged during and after the Second World War.

  4. List of conflicts related to the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    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). [1] [2]

  5. List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.

  6. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Cold War (1962–1979) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of orders of battle - Wikipedia

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    Battle or campaign Order of battle Date Paraguayan War; Battle of Tuyutí: Armies of the Triple Alliance and Paraguay: May 24, 1866 Battle of Curupayty: Armies of the Triple Alliance and Paraguay: September 22, 1866 Battle of Ytororó: Brazilian and Paraguan armies: December 6, 1868 Austro-Prussian War; Battle of Königgrätz: Austrian and ...

  9. Cold War (1948–1953) - Wikipedia

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    Gaddis, John Lewis (1990), Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States- An Interpretive History; Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005) Gaddis, John Lewis. Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987) Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security ...