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• Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947

• Global Realignment, 1947-1953

• Escalation and Crisis, 1953-1962

• De-escalation, Vietnam and the Brezhnev Doctrine, 1962-1969

• Thaw and Détente, 1969-1979

• Second Cold War, 1979-1985

• End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

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Main events (1945–1961) Main events (1962–1991) Specific articles Primary participants and other events

1940s:• Yalta Conference • Potsdam Conference • Gouzenko Affair • Iran Crisis • Chinese Civil War • Greek Civil War • Marshall Plan • Berlin Blockade

1950s:• Korean War • First Indochina War • Iranian Coup • Guatemalan Coup • East German Uprising • First Taiwan Strait Crisis • Hungarian Revolution • Suez Crisis • Sputnik Crisis • Second Taiwan Strait Crisis • Cuban Revolution

1960s:• Vietnam War • Congo Crisis • Sino-Soviet Split • U-2 Crisis of 1960 • Bay of Pigs Invasion

1960s (continued):• Cuban Missile Crisis • Erection of the Berlin Wall • Overthrow of Sukarno • Secret War in Laos • Regime of the Colonels in Greece • Prague Spring • Détente • Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

1970s:• Cambodian Civil War • Ping Pong Diplomacy • 1972 Nixon Visit to China • Overthrow of Allende • SALT I • Angolan Civil War • Mozambican Civil War • Third Indochina War • SALT II • Iranian Revolution

1980s:• Soviet-Afghan War • Salvadoran Civil War • Polish Solidarity Movement • Invasion of Grenada • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Revolutions of 1989

1990s:• Dissolution of the USSR

Concepts:• Communism • Capitalism • Iron Curtain • Containment • Truman Doctrine • Maoism • Revisionism • Peaceful coexistence • Domino Theory • Eisenhower Doctrine • Rollback • Arms race • Nuclear arms race • McCarthyism • Space Race • Kennedy Doctrine • Johnson Doctrine • Brezhnev Doctrine • Ostpolitik • Nixon Doctrine • Wars of national liberation • Carter Doctrine • Reagan Doctrine • Glasnost • Perestroika

Contemporaneous conflicts:• Nicaragua • Arab-Israeli Conflict

•            NATO

•            Warsaw Pact •Non-Aligned Movement •            People's Republic of China

Other specific articles:• Red Scare • Bricker Amendment • Operation Condor • Soviet espionage in US • CIA • Operation Gladio • KGB • Stasi • European Community • Comecon • Portal:Cold War

Spands9 Presidents /

12 Administrations7 Soviet Premiers

• The Cold War• Protracted geopolitical, ideological and economic struggle• Emerged after World War II• Between the US and its allies and the USSR and its allies

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• Distrust between the US and USSR at the end of WW II• No love loss before WW II• Yalta Conference• Espionage activity

• Communism vs. Democracy• State Controlled Economy vs. Capitalism• Disagreement on International Control of Nuclear Energy

• Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947

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Global Realignment, 1947-1953• Truman Doctrine• Marshall Plan• Berlin Blockade & Airlift

• Soviet Union detonates first atomic bomb• Formation of NATO & Warsaw Pact• Division of Germany

• Escalation and Crisis, 1953-1962• the Hungarian Revolution in 1956• the Sino-Soviet split in 1960• the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961• the Bay of Pigs in 1961• the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

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• De-escalation, Vietnam & Brezhnev Doctrine 1962-1969

• installation of the “Hotline” in 1963• Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963• The Vietnam War in 1964• The political liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1968• The Brezhnev Doctrine

• Thaw and Détente, 1969-1979• the Détente period of the Cold War was marked by mediation and relative peace• Treaty of Warsaw (between Poland & West Germany)• Four-Power Agreement on Berlin (US, UK, France & USSR)• Basic Treaty of 1972 (between East & West Germany)

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Second Cold War, 1979-1985• Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan• Soviet deployment of SS-20 medium range nuclear missiles• NATO deployment of 500 cruise & Pershing II missiles• Election of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

• The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991• Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of USSR, 1985

• Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (economic restructuring)

• Chernobyl Accident, 1986• Peaceful Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe• Fall of the Berlin War, 1989• Desert Shield / Desert Storm 1990-1991• Soviet coup attempt and collapse of the Soviet Union, 1991

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24 new Countries were formed with the end of the Soviet Union

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