Category: Cold War

Pages with category: Cold War

North America 1979: Decolonization in the Caribbean
North America 1979
Decolonization in the Caribbean

In the 1960s and '70s, the British...

Europe 1982: Islamic Resurgence
Europe 1982
Islamic Resurgence

To defuse tensions in the Middle...

North America 1983: Central American Crisis
North America 1983
Central American Crisis

In 1979, left-wing Sandinista forces...

Northern Eurasia 1985: Soviet War in Afghanistan
Northern Eurasia 1985
Soviet War in Afghanistan

In 1979, the Soviet Union intervened...

Europe 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
Europe 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall

By the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc had...

North America 1989: End of the Cold War
North America 1989
End of the Cold War

The US funded the Nicaraguan Contras...

Northern Eurasia 1989: Glasnost
Northern Eurasia 1989
Glasnost

By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union...

Northern Eurasia 1991: End of the Warsaw Pact
Northern Eurasia 1991
End of the Warsaw Pact

The collapse of communism in eastern...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Soviet Coup Attempt
Northern Eurasia 1991
Soviet Coup Attempt

By now the forces unleashed by...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Baltic Indepedence
Northern Eurasia 1991
Baltic Indepedence

The first republics to break away...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Belavezha Accords
Northern Eurasia 1991
Belavezha Accords

The failure of the 1991 August coup...

Northern Eurasia 1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Northern Eurasia 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The signing of the Belavezha Accords...

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