War scare

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)

October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States

World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely predicted that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its two predecessors, and the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, thereby surpassing all prior conflicts in scale, devastation, and loss of life.

French politician (1884-1970)

blockade on Berlin imposed by the USSR from 1948 to 1949

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, noted for not executing a nuclear strike during a nuclear false alarm incident (1939-2017)

1969 undeclared conflict between USSR and People's Republic of China

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)

vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991

1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union

imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa

1914 events leading to World War I

1948 coup in Czechoslovakia

conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League from 1570 to 1573

Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army (1852-1925)

1936 treaty violation by Adolf Hitler

mutiny in the Chinese army

NATO command post exercise in 1983

1958 conflict between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in which the PRC shelled Kinmen and Matsu

1939 German diplomatic demand on LIthuania

Diplomatic dispute and confrontation

Russian attack on British trawlers in 1904

coup d'état attempt in Austria in 1934

false alarm incident

killing of two United States Army officers by North Korean soldiers

1961 attempted coup in French Algeria during the Algerian War

diplomatic incident that almost brought the U.S. to war with the U.K. during the American Civil War

naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903

escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, due to the rapidly improved nuclear weapons capability of North Korea

incident which nearly precipitated nuclear warfare

political crisis in Belgium in 1950

border dispute between Chile and Argentina

1944 Aliyah Bet ship, on which violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun (IZL) took place in 1948

war scare in September 1922 between the United Kingdom and Turkey

British writer and activist (1851–1943)

1980s Soviet military intelligence program

1948-1949 IDF's Attack on Egypt Forces

military confrontation between France and the United Kingdom in Syria in May 1945

territorial dispute

1870 massacre in China

Japanese naval armament strategy

US presidential administration from 1901 to 1909

international incident during the Second Sino-Japanese War

dispute among the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain

French diplomat

1886 torpedo gunboat

United States military nuclear incident terminology

1858 assassination attempt on Napoleon III

Brief diplomatic crisis in 1938

affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.

situations in which serious nuclear damage or worse might have occurred if the situation developed in a worse direction