Category: Cold War

North America 1959

Cuban Revolution

In 1952, Colonel Fulgencio Batista...

Asia Pacific 1959

China under Mao

Following the end of the Korean War...

North America 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

US–Cuban relations quickly...

South America 1962

Cold War reaches Latin America

Less than a month after the signing...

Europe 1963

Berlin Wall

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

Northern Eurasia 1963

Height of the Cold War

Although the Warsaw Pact was...

Asia Pacific 1963

Formation of Malaysia

In 1961 Indonesia attacked Dutch New...

North America 1966

Operation Power Pack

Castro's success in Cuba helped...

Asia Pacific 1968

Vietnam War

At the end of the First Indochina...

Northern Eurasia 1969

Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) had...

Eastern Mediterranean 1970

Black September

Following the Six-Day War, forces of...

Europe 1972

Detente

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

Asia Pacific 1973

Paris Peace Accords

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

North America 1974

Counterculture Revolution

Outside the Americas, the US had...

Asia Pacific 1975

Communist Victory in Indochina

Only months after the Paris Peace...