Template:Cold War

Important people, places, and events of the Cold War

Main events (1945–1991)   Specific articles 1940s: Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Iran Crisis Chinese Civil War Truman Doctrine Greek Civil War Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade 1950s: Korean War East German Uprising Hungarian Revolution Suez Crisis Vietnam War Sputnik Crisis 1960s: Sino-Soviet Split U-2 Crisis of 1960 Guatemalan Civil War Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis 1960s (continued): Berlin Wall is Built Prague Spring SALT I Détente 1970s: SALT II 1972 Nixon Visit to China Angolan Civil War Soviet-Afghan War 1980s: Polish Solidarity Movement Glasnost Perestroika Revolutions of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Velvet Revolution Romanian Revolution 1990s: Dissolution of the USSR Timeline of events Iron Curtain Non-Aligned Movement Containment Rollback Arms race Nuclear arms race World War III Space Race Red Scare McCarthyism Soviet espionage in US Ostpolitik CIA KGB Stasi Other conflicts: Nicaragua Arab-Israeli Conflict

Primary participants Other important figures   NATO File:Warsaw Pact seal.png Warsaw Pact Political leaders: United States Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush Soviet Union Joseph Stalin Georgy Malenkov Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev Political leaders: Europe Winston Churchill Clement Attlee Charles de Gaulle Josip Broz Tito Konrad Adenauer Todor Zhivkov Imre Nagy File:Romania flag 1947-1989.png Nicolae Ceauşescu Alexander Dubček Willy Brandt Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Pope John Paul II Margaret Thatcher Lech Wałęsa Oliveira Salazar Kemal Atatürk George Papadopoulos Asia: Pol Pot Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Chiang Kai-shek Jawaharlal Nehru Suharto Kim Il-sung Ho Chi Minh North America: Pierre Trudeau Fidel Castro Henry Kissinger South America: Che Guevara Salvador Allende Augusto Pinochet