The Cold War

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
• Abimael Guzman
• Able Archer 83: The Near-Nuclear Accident
• Agostinho Neto
• Ahmed Ben Bella
• Ahmed Sekou Toure
• Alberto Fujimori
• Alfredo Stroessner
• Algerian Independence
• Ali Khamenei
• Angolan War of Independence
• Apollo 11: Moon Landing
• Argentina's Dirty War — State Terrorism and the Proceso
• 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
• Bay of Pigs Invasion — Failed CIA-Sponsored Operation
• Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Belizean Independence
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
• Biafran Secession and the Nigerian Civil War
• Bloody Sunday
• Botswana Independence
• 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 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
• Death of Stalin and the Thaw
• Delano Grape Strike
• Delano to Sacramento March
• Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening-Up
• Derek Wilford
• Douglas MacArthur
• 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)
• 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
• Ferdinand Marcos
• Fidel Castro
• First Intifada
• Formation of NATO
• Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Founding of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption
• Founding of the Organisation of African Unity
• François Mitterrand
• Fulgencio Batista
• Gaddafi's Coup — Al-Fateh Revolution
• George F. Kennan
• George H. W. Bush
• Ghana's Independence
• Gorbachev Comes to Power: Glasnost and Perestroika
• Greek Civil War
• Guinea Rejects the French Community
• Guinea-Bissau: Independence and Permanent Instability
• Hafez al-Assad
• Haile Selassie
• Hannah Arendt
• Helsinki Accords
• Henry Kissinger
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence and the First Indochina War
• 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
• Julius Nyerere
• Jupiter IRBM Missiles Installed in Turkey
• Juvenal Habyarimana
• Kazakh Independence and Nuclear Renunciation
• Kenya's Independence
• Khmer Rouge Seize Phnom Penh
• Kidnapping and Murder of Aldo Moro
• Konrad Adenauer
• Korean War
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Laurent-Desire Kabila
• Lebanese Independence
• Lech Walesa
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Leopoldo Galtieri
• Libyan Independence — United Kingdom of Libya
• Lockerbie Bombing — Pan Am Flight 103
• Macias Nguema's Rule in Equatorial Guinea
• Malagasy Uprising
• Maltese Independence
• 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.
• Matthew Ridgway
• 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
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Mobutu Sese Seko
• Moroccan Independence from France and Spain
• Mozambican Independence
• Mozambican War of Independence
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Mubarak Assumes Power after Sadat's Assassination
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Mujahideen Insurgency — Operation Cyclone and CIA/Pakistan Backing
• NATO Founded
• Namibian Independence
• Nasser Executes Sayyid Qutb — Martyrdom that Globalised Jihadism
• Neil Armstrong
• Nicolae Ceauşescu
• Nigeria's Independence
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Nixon's Opening to China
• Nnamdi Azikiwe
• Norodom Sihanouk
• OPEC Founded in Baghdad
• Oscar Romero
• 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
• 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
• Qaboos Deposes His Father in Oman
• Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
• Revolutions of 1989: Eastern Europe's Annus Mirabilis
• Richard Nixon
• Rise of Peron and Argentine Military Politics
• Roh Tae-woo
• Romanian Revolution and Execution of Ceausescu
• Ronald Reagan
• SALT I and the Era of Détente
• Salvador Allende
• Samora Machel
• 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
• Singapore Separates from Malaysia
• 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
• 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)
• Tet Offensive
• Thai Student Uprising of 1973
• 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 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
• Trinidad Black Power Revolution
• Truman Doctrine
• Tunisian Independence from France
• Turkish Invasion and the Division of Cyprus
• 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
• Uzbek Independence
• Van Morrison
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Vietnam War Escalation: US Combat Troops Deploy
• Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia: Fall of the Khmer Rouge
• Walter Sisulu
• 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
• Zambian Independence
• Zbigniew Brzezinski