The Cold War

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
• Abimael Guzman
• Able Archer 83: The Near-Nuclear Accident
• Ahmed Ben Bella
• Ahmed Sekou Toure
• Alberto Fujimori
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Alfredo Stroessner
• Algerian Independence
• Ali Khamenei
• Angolan War of Independence
• Apollo 11: Moon Landing
• Argentina's Dirty War — State Terrorism and the Proceso
• Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero
• Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Augusto Pinochet
• Bay of Pigs Invasion — Failed CIA-Sponsored Operation
• Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
• Biafran Secession and the Nigerian Civil War
• Bloody Sunday
• Brazil's Military Coup and the 21-Year Dictatorship (1964–1985)
• CIA Overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS)
• Cambodian Genocide: The Killing Fields
• Camp David Accords
• Carnation Revolution
• Che Guevara's Bolivian Campaign and Capture
• Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
• Chinese Communist Revolution: Founding of the People's Republic
• Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
• Collapse of the Soviet Union
• Congo's Independence
• Construction of the Berlin Wall
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• César Chávez
• Death of Stalin and the Thaw
• Delano Grape Strike
• Delano to Sacramento March
• Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening-Up
• Efrain Rios Montt
• Egypt Joins the Gulf War Coalition
• El Bogotazo and La Violencia
• El Salvador Civil War — US-Backed Junta vs. FMLN
• Election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II — First Polish Pope
• Elizabeth II
• Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
• Ethiopian Famine (1983–1985)
• F. W. de Klerk
• Faisal ibn Abdulaziz
• Falklands/Malvinas War
• Fall of Saigon: Vietnam Reunified Under Communism
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Ferdinand Marcos
• Fidel Castro
• First Intifada
• Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Founding of the Organisation of African Unity
• François Mitterrand
• Fulgencio Batista
• Gaddafi's Coup — Al-Fateh Revolution
• George F. Kennan
• Ghana's Independence
• Gorbachev Comes to Power: Glasnost and Perestroika
• Greek Civil War
• Guinea Rejects the French Community
• Haile Selassie
• Hannah Arendt
• Helsinki Accords
• Henry Kissinger
• Hosni Mubarak
• Hungarian Revolution
• INF Treaty: Eliminating an Entire Class of Nuclear Weapons
• IRA Hunger Strikes
• Idi Amin Dada
• Idi Amin Expels Uganda's Asian Community
• Idi Amin's Military Coup in Uganda
• Indian Independence and Partition
• Indonesian Mass Killings and Suharto's Seizure of Power
• Indonesian National Revolution
• Iran-Contra Affair — Arms for Hostages Linking Iran, Nicaragua, and the White House
• Iranian Hostage Crisis
• Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
• Jan Palach
• Jan Palach's Self-Immolation
• Japan's Postwar Economic Miracle
• Japanese Surrender and SCAP Occupation
• John F. Kennedy
• John Lennon
• John Paul II's 1979 Pilgrimage to Poland — Catalyst for Solidarity
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Jorge Rafael Videla
• João Goulart
• Juan Carlos I of Spain
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Juan Perón
• Juliana of the Netherlands
• Jupiter IRBM Missiles Installed in Turkey
• Juvenal Habyarimana
• Kenya's Independence
• Khmer Rouge Seize Phnom Penh
• Konrad Adenauer
• Korean War
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Laurent-Desire Kabila
• Lech Walesa
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Leopoldo Galtieri
• Lockerbie Bombing — Pan Am Flight 103
• Manuel Marulanda
• Manuel Noriega
• Mao Zedong
• March on Washington and the 'I Have a Dream' Speech
• Marcos Declares Martial Law in the Philippines
• Marcos Pérez Jiménez
• Marshall Plan Announced
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• McCarthyism and the Red Scare
• Mengistu Haile Mariam
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Mobutu Sese Seko
• Mozambican War of Independence
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Mubarak Assumes Power after Sadat's Assassination
• Mujahideen Insurgency — Operation Cyclone and CIA/Pakistan Backing
• NATO Founded
• Nasser Executes Sayyid Qutb — Martyrdom that Globalised Jihadism
• Neil Armstrong
• Nicolae Ceauşescu
• Nigeria's Independence
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Nixon's Opening to China
• Nnamdi Azikiwe
• OPEC Founded in Baghdad
• Oscar Romero
• PLO Founded
• Pacem in Terris — John XXIII's Encyclical on Nuclear Disarmament
• Paris Peace Accords — Vietnam
• Park Chung-hee
• Park Chung-hee's Coup and South Korea's Developmental State
• Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Patrice Lumumba
• Paul Kagame
• Paul VI's Vatican Ostpolitik — Opening to Communist States
• People Power Revolution: Marcos Falls in the Philippines
• Pinochet's Coup Against Allende — Operation Condor Context
• Pius XII's Decree Excommunicating Catholics Who Supported Communism
• Pol Pot
• Pope John Paul II
• Pope John XXIII
• Pope Paul VI
• Post-War Displaced Persons — Europe's Refugees and the DP Camps
• Potsdam Conference
• Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Pérez Jiménez Takes Power in Venezuela
• Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
• Revolutions of 1989: Eastern Europe's Annus Mirabilis
• Richard Nixon
• Rise of Peron and Argentine Military Politics
• Romanian Revolution and Execution of Ceausescu
• Ronald Reagan
• SALT I and the Era of Détente
• Salvador Allende
• Sandinista Revolution and the Contra War in Nicaragua
• Sayyid Qutb
• Sayyid Qutb Publishes Milestones — The Manifesto of Jihadist Islamism
• Secret Removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey — Cuban Missile Crisis Resolution
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
• Six-Day War
• Slobodan Milošević
• Solidarity Movement in Poland
• Soviet Military Invasion of Afghanistan — December 1979
• Soviet Union Tests First Atomic Bomb
• Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Soweto Uprising
• Sputnik: The Space Race Begins
• Stroessner's Coup: Paraguay's 35-Year Dictatorship Begins
• Suez Crisis
• Tet Offensive
• Thai Student Uprising of 1973
• The Bangladesh Liberation War
• The Colombian Armed Conflict
• The Congo Crisis
• The Cuban Revolution — Fall of Batista and Rise of Castro
• The Ethiopian Revolution and the Derg
• The Guatemalan Civil War
• The Iran-Iraq War
• The Iranian Revolution — Khomeini's Islamic Republic
• The Petrodollar Globalisation of Wahhabism
• The Shining Path Insurgency
• The Sri Lankan Civil War
• The Thatcher Era (1979–1990)
• The Troubles Begin
• The US Invasion of Panama
• Truman Doctrine
• US Bombing of Tripoli — Operation El Dorado Canyon
• US Civil Rights Act
• US Invasion of Grenada — Operation Urgent Fury
• US Military Intervention in the Dominican Republic
• Ugandan Independence
• United Farm Workers Founded
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Vietnam War Escalation: US Combat Troops Deploy
• Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia: Fall of the Khmer Rouge
• Warsaw Pact Founded
• Watson and Crick
• Watson and Crick Discover the Double Helix — Structure of DNA
• Yom Kippur War and Oil Crisis
• Yoshida Shigeru
• Yuri Andropov
• Zbigniew Brzezinski