Cold War
1947–1991 · Event
Geopolitical, ideological and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies. Dated here from the Truman Doctrine speech (12 March 1947) to the Soviet Union's dissolution (26 December 1991).
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, USA, Russia & the USSR
Around 1947
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)