The Cold War

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
• Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
• Abdullah al-Sallal
• Abimael Guzman
• Able Archer 83: The Near-Nuclear Accident
• Agostinho Neto
• Agostino Casaroli
• Ahmad Shah Massoud
• Ahmed Ben Bella
• Ahmed Sekou Toure
• Alberto Fujimori
• Alberto Lleras Camargo
• Alec Douglas-Home
• Alexander Dubcek
• Alexei Leonov — The First Spacewalk
• Alfonso López Michelsen
• Alfredo Stroessner
• Algerian Independence
• Ali Hassan Mwinyi
• Ali Khamenei
• Amílcar Cabral
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle
• Andreas Papandreou
• Angolan War of Independence
• Anthony Eden
• Anwar Sadat
• Apollo 11: Moon Landing
• Apollo-Soyuz — The Handshake That Ended the Race
• Argentina's Dirty War — State Terrorism and the Proceso
• Ariel Sharon
• Arnulfo Arias
• Arusha Declaration and Tanzanian Ujamaa
• Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy
• Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Augusto Pinochet
• Babrak Karmal
• Barthélemy Boganda
• Bay of Pigs Invasion — Failed CIA-Sponsored Operation
• Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Bechara el-Khoury
• Belizean Independence
• Benigno Aquino Jr.
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
• Biafran Secession and the Nigerian Civil War
• Bloody Sunday
• Bob Hawke
• Boris Gromov
• Botswana Independence
• Brazil's Military Coup and the 21-Year Dictatorship (1964–1985)
• Bruno Kreisky
• CIA Overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS)
• Cambodian Genocide: The Killing Fields
• Camille Chamoun
• Camp David Accords
• Carlos Andrés Pérez
• Carlos Arana Osorio
• Carlos Castillo Armas
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
• Carlos Lleras Restrepo
• Carnation Revolution
• Che Guevara's Bolivian Campaign and Capture
• Cheddi Jagan
• Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
• Chiang Ching-kuo
• Chinese Communist Revolution: Founding of the People's Republic
• Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
• Collapse of Communist Rule in Albania
• Collapse of the Soviet Union
• Congo's Independence
• Construction of the Berlin Wall
• Corazon Aquino
• Costa Rica Abolishes Its Army
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• César Chávez
• Daniel arap Moi
• David Ben-Gurion
• David Lange
• Dawda Jawara
• Death of Stalin and the Thaw
• Delano Grape Strike
• Delano to Sacramento March
• Deng Xiaoping
• Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening-Up
• Dennis Banks
• Derek Wilford
• Didier Ratsiraka
• Douglas MacArthur
• Eduard Shevardnadze
• Eduardo Frei Montalva
• Edward Gierek
• Edward Heath
• Edward Seaga
• Efrain Rios Montt
• Egypt Joins the Gulf War Coalition
• Einar Gerhardsen
• 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
• Elvis Presley
• Eric Gairy
• Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
• Ethiopian Famine (1983–1985)
• Eyadema and the Togolese Dynasty
• F. W. de Klerk
• Faisal ibn Abdulaziz
• Falklands/Malvinas War
• Fall of Saigon: Vietnam Reunified Under Communism
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Felipe González
• Ferdinand Marcos
• Fidel Castro
• First Intifada
• Forbes Burnham
• Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Founding of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption
• Founding of the Organisation of African Unity
• Francisco Macías Nguema
• François Duvalier
• François Mitterrand
• Frederik IX of Denmark
• Fuad Chehab
• Fulgencio Batista
• Gaafar Nimeiry
• Gaddafi's Coup — Al-Fateh Revolution
• Gamal Abdel Nasser
• George F. Kennan
• George H. W. Bush
• George Papandreou
• George Price
• Gerald Ford
• Gerhard Schröder
• Ghana's Independence
• Gnassingbé Eyadéma
• Godfrey Hounsfield
• Gorbachev Comes to Power: Glasnost and Perestroika
• Gough Whitlam
• Greek Civil War
• Guinea Rejects the French Community
• Guinea-Bissau: Independence and Permanent Instability
• Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
• Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
• Habib Bourguiba
• Hafez al-Assad
• Hafizullah Amin
• Haile Selassie
• Hamani Diori
• Hammer DeRoburt
• Hannah Arendt
• Harold Macmillan
• Harold Wilson
• Hastings Banda
• Hector Pieterson
• Helmut Kohl
• Helmut Schmidt
• Helsinki Accords
• Hendrik Verwoerd
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
• Henry Kissinger
• Hissène Habré
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence and the First Indochina War
• Hosni Mubarak
• Hugo Banzer
• Hungarian Revolution
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad
• 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
• Imam Ahmad of Yemen
• 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
• Ismet Inonu
• Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
• Jack Lynch
• Jacobo Árbenz
• James Callaghan
• Jan Palach
• Jan Palach's Self-Immolation
• Japan's Postwar Economic Miracle
• Japanese Surrender and SCAP Occupation
• Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa
• Jean-Claude Duvalier
• Jiang Zemin
• Jimmy Carter
• Joaquim Chissano
• Joaquín Balaguer
• John F. Kennedy
• John Lennon
• John Major
• John Paul II's 1979 Pilgrimage to Poland — Catalyst for Solidarity
• John Vorster
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Jorge Alessandri
• Jorge Rafael Videla
• Jose Napoleon Duarte
• Josip Broz Tito
• José Eduardo dos Santos
• José María Velasco Ibarra
• João Goulart
• Juan Carlos I of Spain
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Juan Maria Bordaberry
• Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo
• Juan Perón
• Juho Kusti Paasikivi
• Juliana of the Netherlands
• Julio César Méndez Montenegro
• Julio César Turbay
• Julio María Sanguinetti
• Julius Nyerere
• Jupiter IRBM Missiles Installed in Turkey
• Juvenal Habyarimana
• János Kádár
• Kazakh Independence and Nuclear Renunciation
• Kennedy Commits to the Moon Before the Decade Is Out
• Kenya's Independence
• Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
• Khmer Rouge Seize Phnom Penh
• Kidnapping and Murder of Aldo Moro
• King Idris I of Libya
• Kjell Laugerud García
• Konrad Adenauer
• Konstantinos Karamanlis
• Korean War
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Lansana Conté
• Laurent-Desire Kabila
• Le Duan
• Lebanese Independence
• Lech Walesa
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Leopoldo Galtieri
• León Febres Cordero
• Libyan Independence — United Kingdom of Libya
• Lockerbie Bombing — Pan Am Flight 103
• Luis Echeverría
• Luis Somoza Debayle
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Macias Nguema's Rule in Equatorial Guinea
• Mahendra of Nepal
• Malagasy Uprising
• Malcolm Muggeridge
• Maltese Independence
• Manuel Marulanda
• Manuel Noriega
• Manuel Prado Ugarteche
• Mao Zedong
• March on Washington and the 'I Have a Dream' Speech
• Marcos Declares Martial Law in the Philippines
• Marcos Pérez Jiménez
• Margaret Thatcher
• Marshall Plan Announced
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Matthew Ridgway
• Mauno Koivisto
• Maurice Bishop
• Mauritian Independence and the Excision of the Chagos
• McCarthyism and the Red Scare
• Medellin Cartel's War Against the Colombian State
• Mengistu Haile Mariam
• Merdeka: Malayan Independence
• Michael Manley
• Michael Somare
• Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Mobutu Sese Seko
• Mohamed Naguib
• Mohammad Najibullah
• Mohammed Daoud Khan
• Mohammed V of Morocco
• Mohammed Zahir Shah
• Moroccan Independence from France and Spain
• Mother Teresa
• Mozambican Independence
• Mozambican War of Independence
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Mubarak Assumes Power after Sadat's Assassination
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• Mujahideen Insurgency — Operation Cyclone and CIA/Pakistan Backing
• Mário Soares
• NASA Created — America Answers Sputnik
• NATO Founded
• Nakasone Yasuhiro
• Namibian Independence
• Nasser Executes Sayyid Qutb — Martyrdom that Globalised Jihadism
• Ne Win
• Neil Armstrong
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Nguyễn Văn Linh
• Nicolae Ceauşescu
• Nigeria's Independence
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Nixon's Opening to China
• Nnamdi Azikiwe
• Norman Borlaug
• Norodom Sihanouk
• Nur Muhammad Taraki
• Nuri al-Said
• OPEC Founded in Baghdad
• Olaf Scholz
• Olav V of Norway
• Olof Palme
• Omar Bongo
• Oscar Romero
• P. W. Botha
• PLO Founded
• Pacem in Terris — John XXIII's Encyclical on Nuclear Disarmament
• Papua New Guinean Independence
• Paris Peace Accords — Vietnam
• Park Chung-hee
• Park Chung-hee's Coup and South Korea's Developmental State
• Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Pathet Lao Take Power in Laos
• Patriation of the Canadian Constitution
• Patrice Lumumba
• Paul Kagame
• Paul VI's Vatican Ostpolitik — Opening to Communist States
• Peng Dehuai
• People Power Revolution: Marcos Falls in the Philippines
• Philippine Independence
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• Pierre Werner
• 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
• Poul Schlüter
• Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
• Prem Tinsulanonda
• Pérez Jiménez Takes Power in Venezuela
• Qaboos Deposes His Father in Oman
• Rafael Trujillo
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
• Revolutions of 1989: Eastern Europe's Annus Mirabilis
• Riad el-Solh
• Richard Nixon
• Rise of Peron and Argentine Military Politics
• Robert Edwards
• Robert Menzies
• Robert Mugabe
• Robert Muldoon
• Roh Tae-woo
• Romanian Revolution and Execution of Ceausescu
• Romeo Lucas García
• Ronald Reagan
• Ruben Um Nyobè
• Ruhollah Khomeini
• Rupert Bishop
• Russell Means
• Ruud Lubbers
• Rómulo Betancourt
• SALT I and the Era of Détente
• Said bin Taimur
• Salvador Allende
• Sam Nzima
• Samora Machel
• Samuel Doe
• Sandinista Revolution and the Contra War in Nicaragua
• Sarit Thanarat
• Satō Eisaku
• Sayyid Qutb
• Sayyid Qutb Publishes Milestones — The Manifesto of Jihadist Islamism
• Secret Removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey — Cuban Missile Crisis Resolution
• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
• Seyni Kountché
• Seán Lemass
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
• Shukri al-Quwatli
• Siaka Stevens
• Singapore Separates from Malaysia
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike
• Six-Day War
• Slobodan Milošević
• Sobhuza II's Royal Decree in Swaziland
• 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
• Stanislav Shushkevich
• Steve Biko
• Steve McQueen
• Stroessner's Coup: Paraguay's 35-Year Dictatorship Begins
• Suez Crisis
• Sukarno
• Suriname's Sergeants' Coup
• Syngman Rhee
• Syrian Independence (Evacuation Day)
• Süleyman Demirel
• Talal of Jordan
• Tet Offensive
• Thai Student Uprising of 1973
• The Austrian State Treaty — Occupation Ends, Neutrality Declared
• The Bangladesh Liberation War
• The Colombian Armed Conflict
• The Comoros Coup Cycle
• The Congo Crisis
• The Cuban Revolution — Fall of Batista and Rise of Castro
• The Ethiopian Revolution and the Derg
• The Fiji Coups
• The Guatemalan Civil War
• The Ikiza: Mass Killings in Burundi
• The Iran-Iraq War
• The Iranian Revolution — Khomeini's Islamic Republic
• The Malayan Emergency
• The Non-Proliferation Treaty
• The Overthrow and Killing of Ngo Dinh Diem
• 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
• Thomas Sankara
• Todor Zhivkov
• Tom Adams
• Tom Parker
• Tribhuvan of Nepal
• Trinidad Black Power Revolution
• Truman Doctrine
• Tunisian Independence from France
• Tunku Abdul Rahman
• Turgut Özal
• Turkish Invasion and the Division of Cyprus
• Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
• U Nu
• 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
• Urho Kekkonen
• Uzbek Independence
• Van Morrison
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Vietnam War Escalation: US Combat Troops Deploy
• Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia: Fall of the Khmer Rouge
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
• Vinicio Cerezo
• Víctor Paz Estenssoro
• Walter Sisulu
• Warsaw Pact Founded
• Watson and Crick
• Watson and Crick Discover the Double Helix — Structure of DNA
• Wilfried Martens
• William Styron
• William Tolbert
• William Tubman
• William Westmoreland
• Willy Brandt
• Wojciech Jaruzelski
• Władysław Gomułka
• Yom Kippur War and Oil Crisis
• Yoshida Shigeru
• Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
• Yuri Andropov
• Yuri Gagarin — The First Human in Space
• Zambian Independence
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Óscar Arias