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The Cold War, 1945–1991
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The Cold War, 1945–1991 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 18 dated map states, and 46 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
The World the War Left
CHAPTER 1 · MAR 1946
Containment
CHAPTER 2 · MAY 1949
Two Shocks of 1949
CHAPTER 3 · OCT 1949
Korea: The Cold War Turns Hot
CHAPTER 4 · AUG 1953
Coexistence and Its Crises
CHAPTER 5 · AUG 1961
Cuba: To the Brink
CHAPTER 6 · OCT 1962
Vietnam
CHAPTER 7 · AUG 1968
The Third World Front
CHAPTER 8 · NOV 1975
Détente: The Triangle
CHAPTER 9 · JAN 1977
The Second Cold War
CHAPTER 10 · NOV 1983
Gorbachev and the Unraveling
CHAPTER 11 · NOV 1989
The End — and the Arguments
CHAPTER 12 · DEC 1991
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
AUG 1945OCT 1949JUL 1953NOV 1956OCT 1962AUG 1968NOV 1975DEC 1979NOV 1989DEC 1991MAY 1945MAY 1949MAY 1955AUG 1961AUG 1968DEC 1979NOV 1989DEC 1991
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
● Able Archer 83✕ Angola — war by proxy● Armistice at Panmunjom✕ Bay of Pigs● Belovezha Accords◆ Budapest, 1956◆ Chernobyl✕ Clash on the Ussuri✕ Dien Bien Phu✕ Inchon landing● Nixon in China● Potsdam Conference● Prague Spring crushed● Proclamation of the People’s Republic✕ Pusan Perimeter● Reykjavík Summit◆ Romania — the violent exception✕ Storm-333● Submarine B-59● Suez● The August Coup● The Bandung Conference● The Berlin Airlift● The Helsinki Accords◆ The Khmer Rouge● The Lenin Shipyard● The Long Telegram● The Marshall Plan● The Monday demonstrations✕ The October War● The Prague coup● The Round Table● The Secret Speech✕ The Tet Offensive● The Wall falls● The Wall goes up◆ The bombing of Cambodia◆ The bombing of the North● The coup in Chile● The fall of Saigon● The flag comes down● The missile sites● The murder of Lumumba● U-2 down over Sverdlovsk● “An iron curtain has descended”● “First Lightning”
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