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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological dominance and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. It started in 1947 and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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]
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).
Independence restored after period of Spanish rule. Independence initially declared from Spain in 1821 as the Republic of Spanish Haiti, and from Haiti in 1844 with the current name. July 1, 1867 United Kingdom Canada: Britain continued to exercise some level of control until the Statute of Westminster.
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 ...
1973: The PAIGC proclaims the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24. 1975: Portugal recognizes Mozambique's independence on June 25 and Angola on November 11. November 1975: Green March during which Morocco annexes Western Sahara, formerly part of Spanish Morocco. 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and start of the "Second Cold War".
NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet. ... a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet.
Nation-building after independence often continues the work began by independence movements during the colonial period. Language policy From the perspective of language policy (or language politics ), "linguistic decolonization" entails the replacement of a colonizing (imperial) power's language with a given colony's indigenous language in the ...