The Cold War, 1945–1991
Cold War map of key events
46 battles, turning points and sites of memory from The Cold War, 1945–1991, chapter by chapter, each with its date, its story and a map of where it…
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Origins of the Cold War
Marshall Plan and Berlin Blockade
Soviet atomic bomb and Mao’s victory
Korean War
Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Cold War in the Third World
Détente and Nixon in China
Afghanistan and the Second Cold War
Gorbachev and the 1989 revolutions
End of the Cold War
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