Category: Cold War

Asia Pacific 1959

China under Mao

Following the end of the Korean War in 1953...

North America 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

US-Cuban relations quickly deteriorated as...

South America 1962

Cold War reaches Latin America

Less than a month after the signing of the Rio...

Europe 1963

Berlin Wall

The coming of the 1960s saw the Cold War...

Northern Eurasia 1963

Height of the Cold War

Although the Warsaw Pact was officially a...

Asia Pacific 1963

Formation of Malaysia

In 1961, Indonesia attacked Dutch New Guinea....

North America 1966

Operation Power Pack

Castro’s success in Cuba helped inspire...

Asia Pacific 1968

Vietnam War

At the end of the First Indochina War, Vietnam...

Northern Eurasia 1969

Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) had brought...

Europe 1972

Detente

The crises of the early ‘60s brought the...

Asia Pacific 1973

Paris Peace Accords

By the late 1960s, US public opinion had swung...

North America 1974

Counterculture Revolution

Outside the Americas, the US had been fighting...

Asia Pacific 1975

Communist Victory in Indochina

Only months after the Paris Peace Accords,...

Europe 1977

Cold War Rivalry in the Middle East

In 1967, Israel conquered large swathes of...

the Arctic 1977

Nuclear Standoff

In 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first...