List of conflicts related to the Cold War
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While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 14 days).[1][2]
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Since 1944
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Since 1950s
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| Cazin Rebellion | May 5, 1950 | May 6, 1950 |
Civilians and rebels |
Southeast Europe | Yugoslav victory | |
| Korean War | June 25, 1950 | July 27, 1953 |
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Eastern Asia | Inconclusive |
| Egyptian Revolution of 1952 | July 22, 1952 | July 26, 1952 |
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North Africa, Western Asia | Free Officers victory |
| Plzeň uprising of 1953 | May 31, 1952 | June 2, 1952 |
Demonstrators |
Central Europe | Eastern Bloc victory | |
| Uprising of 1953 in East Germany | June 16, 1953 | June 17, 1953 |
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Eastern Europe | Eastern Bloc Victory | |
| Cuban Revolution | July 26, 1953 | January 1, 1959 | Caribbean | Revolutionary victory | ||
| 1953 Iranian coup d'état | August 15, 1953 | August 20, 1953 |
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Southern Asia | Pahlavi victory |
| Laotian Civil War | November 9, 1953 | December 2, 1975 |
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Southeast Asia | Pathet Lao-North Vietnamese victory |
| 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état | June 18, 1954 | June 27, 1954 |
Supported by: |
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Central America | Rebel-American victory |
| First Taiwan Strait Crisis | September 3, 1954 | May 1, 1955 | Eastern Asia | Inconclusive | ||
| Algerian War | November 1, 1954 | March 19, 1962 |
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North Africa | Algerian victory | |
| Calderonist Invasion on Costa Rica | January 7, 1955 | February 21, 1955 |
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Central America | Costa Rican government victory |
| 1955 Argentine coup d'état “Liberating Revolution” | September 16, 1955 | September 23, 1955 |
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South America | Revolutionary victory |
| Vietnam War | November 1, 1955 | April 30, 1975 |
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Southeast Asia | Eastern Bloc victory |
| Poznań 1956 protests | June 28, 1956 | June 30, 1956 |
Protesters |
Central Europe | Polish government victory | |
| Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | October 23, 1956 | November 10, 1956 |
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Central Europe | Eastern Bloc victory |
| Suez Crisis | October 29, 1956 | November 7, 1956 | North Africa, Western Asia | Egyptian victory | ||
| Ifni War | October 23, 1957 | June 30, 1958 |
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North Africa | Franco-Spanish victory |
| First Albanian air force incident against US air force | December 23, 1957 | December 23, 1957 | Southeast Europe | Eastern Bloc victory | ||
| 14 July Revolution | July 14, 1958 | July 14, 1958 |
Supported by: |
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Western Asia | Revolutionary victory |
| Second Taiwan Strait Crisis | August 23, 1958 | October 6, 1958 | Eastern Asia | Taiwanese-American victory | ||
| 1959 Mosul uprising | March 7, 1959 | March 11, 1959 |
 Arab nationalists
 United Arab Republic[17][18][19] United States[20]
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Western Asia | Coup fails | |
| 1959 Tibetan uprising | March 10, 1959 | March 21, 1959 |
Simultaneous rebellion in Kham and Amdo:
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Central Asia | Eastern Bloc victory |
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Since 1960s
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Since 1970s
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Since 1980s
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Since 1990s
[edit]| Conflict | Start date | End date | Western Bloc related | Eastern Bloc related | Region |
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| Gulf War | August 2, 1990 | February 28, 1991 |  Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia Egypt France |
 Iraq |
Western Asia |
| Yugoslav Wars | March 31, 1991 | November 12, 2001 |  Slovenia Croatia Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina NATO KLA UÇPMB |
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Eastern Europe |
| 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt | August 19, 1991 | August 21, 1991 |  All-Union Government of the USSR
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See also
[edit]- History of Communism (September 3, 1945 - December 31, 1992)
- List of wars 1945-1989
References
[edit]- ↑ The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, Norman Friedman (1999) ISBN 978-1557502643
- ↑ The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Odd Arne Westad (2005) ISBN 978-0521853644
- ↑ Suryanarayan, V. (1981). "Presidential Address: India and the Indonesian Revolution". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 42: 549–562. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44141175.
- ↑ Miyata, Osamu (July 1987), "The Tudeh Military Network during the Oil Nationalization Period", Middle Eastern Studies, 23 (3): 313–328, doi:10.1080/00263208708700709, JSTOR 4283187
- ↑ The Power of Freedom - Central and Eastern Europe after 1945. Unitas Foundation. 2010. ISBN 978-9949-21-479-2.
- ↑ Hochman, Jiří (1998). Historical dictionary of the Czech State. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780810833388.
- ↑ Palestine Post, "Israel's Bedouin Warriors", Gene Dison, August 12, 1948
- ↑ AFP (24 April 2013). "Bedouin army trackers scale Israel social ladder". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 Oren 2003, p. 5.
- ↑ Morris (2008), p. 260.
- ↑ Gelber, pp. 55, 200, 239
- ↑ Morris, Benny (2008), 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, Yale University Press, p. 205, New Haven, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9.
- ↑ HENRY W. BRANDS JR. (1987). "Redefining the Cold War: American Policy toward Yugoslavia, 1948–60". Diplomatic History. 11 (1). Oxford University Press: 41–53. JSTOR 24911740. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ↑ Kim, Heesu (1996). Anglo-American Relations and the Attempts to Settle the Korean Question 1953–1960 (PDF) (Thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science. p. 213. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ↑ Wilford, Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Basic Books. pp. 135–139. ISBN 978-0465019656.
... whether or not the CIA dealt directly with the Free Officers prior to their July 1952 coup, there was extensive secret American-Egyptian contact in the months after the revolution.
- ↑ Morsy, Laila Amin (1995). "American Support for the 1952 Egyptian Coup: Why?". Middle Eastern Studies. 31 (2): 307–316. doi:10.1080/00263209508701055. ISSN 0026-3206. JSTOR 4283718.
- ↑ "Mosul Revolt, 1958-1959". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ↑ Wolf-Hunnicutt, Brandon (2011). The End of the Concessionary Regime: Oil and American Power in Iraq, 1958-1972. Stanford University. p. 36.
- ↑ Davies, Eric (2005). Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. University of California Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780520235465.
- ↑ "Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot - UPI.com". UPI. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ↑ Entessar, Nader (2010). Kurdish Politics in the Middle East.
- ↑ McDowall, David (2005). A Modern History of the Kurds (3rd, revised and updated ed.). London: Tauris. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-85043-416-0.
- ↑ Batatu (25 January 2013). The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. ISBN 9780863567711.
- ↑ Mohammed Mughisuddin (1977), p. 153
- ↑ "Biafran War Memories". CPIDH Unesco. 2016.
- ↑ "1974: Rebels seize control of Portugal", On This Day, 25 April, BBC, 25 April 1974, retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ↑ Booker, Peter (24 April 2019). "Why April 25th is a holiday – the Carnation Revolution and the events of 1974". Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ↑ Farrell, Tom (March 12, 2014). "North Korea's role in Sri Lanka's bloody insurgencies". NK News. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ from 1946
- ↑ claimed neutrality
- 1 2 3 until 1946
- ↑ 1948-1949, after Operation Kraai
- ↑ after 1947
- ↑ Founded as the Czech National Social Party in 1897, the party's name was changed to the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in 1926.[6]
- 1 2 After 22 September 1948
- ↑ Lebanon had decided to not participate in the war and only took part in the battle of al-Malikiya on 5–6 June 1948.[10]
- ↑ On 9 July 1951 troop constituents were: US: 70.4%; ROK: 23.3%; other UNC: 6.3%.[14]
- 1 2 Covertly