General timeline:
1940s:
- Yalta Conference
- Potsdam Conference
- Iran Crisis
- Gouzenko Affair
- Chinese Civil War
- Truman Doctrine
- Greek Civil War
- Marshall Plan
- Malayan Emergency
- Mau Mau Uprising
- Berlin Blockade
1950s:
- Korean War
- East German Uprising
- Operation Ajax
- Operation PBSUCCESS
- Hungarian Revolution
- Suezkrisen
- Vietnam War
- Sputnik Crisis
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Cuban Revolution
1960s:
- Sino-Soviet Split
- U-2 Crisis of 1960
- Guatemalan Civil War
- Kennedy Doctrine
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Berlin Wall is Built
- Johnson Doctrine
- Indonesian Civil War
- Prague Spring
- Nixon Doctrine
- SALT I
- Détente
1970s:
- SALT II
- 1972 Nixon Visit to China
- Second Chimurenga
- Fall of Saigon
- Angolan Civil War
- Mozambican Civil War
- Ogaden War
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1970s (continued):
- Sandinistas
- Soviet-Afghan War
- Iranian Revolution
1980s:
- Carter Doctrine
- Contras
- El Salvador Civil War
- Polish Solidarity Movement
- Reagan Doctrine
- Glasnost
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- Perestroika
- Revolutions of 1989
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Velvet Revolution
- Romanian Revolution
1990s:
Specific articles:
Contemporaneous conflicts:
- Nicaragua
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Political leaders:
- Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin
- Georgy Malenkov
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Yuri Andropov
- Konstantin Chernenko
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Notable Soviet Politicians
- Lavrentiy Beria
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Mikhail Suslov
- Nikolai Bulganin
- Anastas Mikoyan
- Andrei Gromyko
- Alexey Kosygin
- Boris Yeltsin
- United States
- Notable US Politicians
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Political leaders:
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