Template:Cold War

General timeline:

• Timeline of 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
• Algerian War of Independence
• 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
• Construction of the Berlin Wall
• U.S. Invasion of Dominican Republic
• Overthrow of Sukarno
• Bangkok Declaration
• 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
• Ogaden 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:

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