Warsaw Pact founded
1955 · Event
Soviet-led military alliance counterweight to NATO.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
Around 1955
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)