Cold War

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

competition to explore space between USA and USSR

There are currently nine sovereign states that are generally understood to possess nuclear weapons, though only eight formally acknowledge possessing them. In order of first successful nuclear test, the world's nine nuclear-armed states are the United States (1945), Russia (1949), the United Kingdom (1952), France (1960), China (1964), India (1974), Pakistan (1998), and North Korea (2006); Israel is believed to have acquired nuclear weapons around 1967, but has never openly tested or formally acknowledged having them. Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China are recognized "nuclear-weapons states" (NWS). They are also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Israel, India, and Pakistan never signed the NPT, while North Korea acceded to it in 1985 before announcing withdrawal in 2003.

1946–1949 civil war in Greece

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post-WWII destabilization plan for Germany

series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks

United States response to the launch of Sputnik

informal political term used to describe the actions and power of the Soviet Union before 1991

any new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power

meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War

provisional government of Poland, proclaimed in 1944

stage cycling race

Alleged Soviet spy

KGB leaked secret files given by Vasili Mitrokhin

photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen

Cold War-era coordinated embargo of East Bloc states by the West Bloc

feature of Richard Nixon's foreign policy

1956 Project 613 submarine which ran aground in Karlskrona, Sweden in October 1981

United States Department of Defense codename

heightened state of readiness of interceptor aircraft in military aviation

siege

journalistic term for predicted conflict over central Asian resources

operation undertaken by the DINA (the Chilean secret police) in 1975 to make political dissidents disappear

code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet

peace camp in Berkshire, England

type of international nuclear weapons policy

Armament resolution by NATO

lasting state of war with no clear ending conditions

museum in Berlin

1949 US political crisis

1988 Summit Between the USSR & USA

US occupation of Korea from 1945-1948

Spanish nuclear weapons program (1963-1987)

alleged right-wing Argentine plot against left-wing activists in Central America

coastal artillery fort and museum, was part of a series of similar facilities built in the 1960's and 1970's as a defence against potential attacks from the Soviet Union.

meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki on 9 September 1990

Swedish information brochure

1988 conference

legal continuity of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania under international law

United States program to help build up the military of West Germany after World War II

Long Tieng in Laos

1973–1994 intergovernmental security organisation, now the OSCE

proposed invasion of Cuba

study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959

military maneuver of the US Air Force

secret American photographic surveillance program

dimension of the world-wide Cold War that shaped largely diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991

predictions

Angolan nationalist organization

1979 non-fiction work by Cresson Kearny

diplomatic message from the North Atlantic Council

artificial satellite

Permesta was a rebel movement in Indonesia. It was founded on 2 March 1957 by civil and military leaders in Eastern Indonesia. Initially the center of the movement was in Makassar, which at that time was the capital of the province of Sulawesi. However, support for the movement in South Sulawesi gradually dissipated, forcing the headquarters to move to Manado in North Sulawesi.

Russian submarine acquired by a Danish project for unemployed youth

1948 mid-air collision over Berlin, Germany

crimes against humanity from 1973 to 1990 in Chile

plot to kidnap the Swedish minister for immigration

British diplomat (1925-1986)