List of conflicts related to the Cold War

While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (1947–1991).^[1]^[2]

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Conflict	Start date	End date	Location	Region
War in Vietnam (1945–46)	01945-09-13-0000September 13, 1945	01946-03-30-0000March 30, 1946	French Indochina	Southeast Asia
Iran crisis of 1946	01945-11-15-0000November 15, 1945	01946-11-15-0000November 15, 1946	Iran	Southern Asia
Greek Civil War	01946-03-30-0000March 30, 1946	01949-10-16-0000October 16, 1949	Kingdom of Greece	Southern Europe
Corfu Channel incident	01946-05-15-0000May 15, 1946	01946-11-13-0000November 13, 1946	Straits of Corfu	Southern Europe
Hukbalahap Rebellion	01946-07-04-0000July 4, 1946	01954-05-17-0000May 17, 1954	Philippines	Southeast Asia
First Indochina War	01946-12-19-0000December 19, 1946	01954-08-01-0000August 1, 1954	French Indochina	Southeast Asia
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état	01948-02-20-0000February 20, 1948	01948-02-25-0000February 25, 1948	Czechoslovakia	Central Europe
Malayan Emergency	01948-06-16-0000June 16, 1948	01960-07-12-0000July 12, 1960	Federation of Malaya	Southeast Asia
Berlin Blockade	01948-06-24-0000June 24, 1948	01949-05-12-0000May 12, 1949	Allied-occupied Germany	Western Europe
Korean War	01950-06-25-0000June 25, 1950	01953-07-27-0000July 27, 1953	North Korea South Korea	Eastern Asia
Egyptian Revolution of 1952	01952-07-22-0000July 22, 1952	01952-07-26-0000July 26, 1952	Kingdom of Egypt	North Africa
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany	01953-06-16-0000June 16, 1953	01953-06-17-0000June 17, 1953	East Germany	Western Europe
Cuban Revolution	01953-07-26-0000July 26, 1953	01959-01-01-0000January 1, 1959	Cuba	Caribbean
1953 Iranian coup d'état	01953-08-15-0000August 15, 1953	01953-08-20-0000August 20, 1953	Iran	Southern Asia
Laotian Civil War	01953-11-09-0000November 9, 1953	01975-12-02-0000December 2, 1975	Kingdom of Laos	Southeast Asia
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état	01954-06-18-0000June 18, 1954	01954-06-27-0000June 27, 1954	Guatemala	Central America
First Taiwan Strait Crisis	01954-09-03-0000September 3, 1954	01955-05-01-0000May 1, 1955	Taiwan Strait	Eastern Asia
Vietnam War	01955-11-01-0000November 1, 1955	01975-04-30-0000April 30, 1975	North Vietnam South Vietnam	Southeast Asia
Poznań 1956 protests	01956-06-28-0000June 28, 1956	01956-06-30-0000June 30, 1956	Polish People's Republic	Central Europe
Hungarian Revolution of 1956	01956-10-23-0000October 23, 1956	01956-11-10-0000November 10, 1956	Hungarian People's Republic	Central Europe
Suez Crisis	01956-10-29-0000October 29, 1956	01956-11-07-0000November 7, 1956	Egypt	North Africa
14 July Revolution	01958-07-14-0000July 14, 1958	01958-07-14-0000July 14, 1958	Arab Federation	Western Asia
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis	01958-08-23-0000August 23, 1958	01958-10-06-0000October 6, 1958	Taiwan Strait	Eastern Asia
1959 Tibetan uprising	01959-03-10-0000March 10, 1959	01959-03-21-0000March 21, 1959	Tibet	Central Asia
1960 U-2 incident	01960-05-01-0000May 1, 1960	01960-05-01-0000May 1, 1960	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe
Congo Crisis	01960-06-30-0000June 30, 1960	01965-11-25-0000November 25, 1965	Congo	Central Africa
Angolan War of Independence	01961-02-04-0000February 4, 1961	01975-01-15-0000January 15, 1975	Portuguese Angola	Southern Africa
Bay of Pigs Invasion	01961-04-17-0000April 17, 1961	01961-04-19-0000April 19, 1961	Cuba	Caribbean
Berlin Crisis of 1961	01961-06-04-0000June 4, 1961	01961-11-09-0000November 9, 1961	East Germany	Western Europe
Nicaraguan Revolution	01961-07-23-0000July 23, 1961	01990-04-25-0000April 25, 1990	Nicaragua	Central America
Cuban missile crisis	01962-10-14-0000October 14, 1962	01962-10-28-0000October 28, 1962	Cuba	Caribbean
Sino-Indian War	01962-10-20-0000October 20, 1962	01962-11-21-0000November 21, 1962	China/India border	Southern Asia
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence	01963-01-23-0000January 23, 1963	01974-09-11-0000September 11, 1974	Portuguese Guinea	Western Africa
1964 Brazilian coup d'état	01964-07-04-0000July 4, 1964	01964-04-01-0000April 1, 1964	Brazil	South America
Rhodesian Bush War	01964-03-31-0000March 31, 1964	01979-12-12-0000December 12, 1979	Southern Rhodesia	Southern Africa
Mozambican War of Independence	01964-09-25-0000September 25, 1964	01974-09-08-0000September 8, 1974	Portuguese Mozambique	Eastern Africa
Dominican Civil War	01965-04-24-0000April 24, 1965	01965-09-03-0000September 3, 1965	Dominican Republic	Caribbean
United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)	01965-04-28-0000April 28, 1965	01966-07-01-0000July 1, 1966	Dominican Republic	Caribbean
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965	01965-08-15-0000August 15, 1965	01965-09-23-0000September 23, 1965	Kashmir	Indian subcontinent
30 September Movement	01965-09-30-0000September 30, 1965	01965-10-01-0000October 1, 1965	Indonesia	Southeast Asia
Indonesian killings of 1965–66	01965-10-01-0000October 1, 1965	01966-03-01-0000March 1966	Indonesia	Southeast Asia
South African Border War	01966-08-26-0000August 26, 1966	01990-03-21-0000March 21, 1990	Namibia and Angola	Southern Africa
Namibian War of Independence	01966-08-26-0000August 26, 1966	01990-03-21-0000March 21, 1990	Namibia	Southern Africa
Greek military junta of 1967–74	01967-04-21-0000April 21, 1967	01974-07-23-0000July 23, 1974	Greece	Southern Europe
Six-Day War	01967-06-05-0000June 5, 1967	01967-06-10-0000June 10, 1967	Egypt, Jordan, and Syria	Western Asia
War of Attrition	01967-07-01-0000July 1, 1967	01970-08-07-0000August 7, 1970	Sinai Peninsula	Western Asia
Communist Insurgency War	01968-06-17-0000June 17, 1968	01989-12-02-0000December 2, 1989	Malaysia	Southeast Asia
Sino-Soviet border conflict	01969-03-02-0000March 2, 1969	01969-09-11-0000September 11, 1969	China/Soviet Union border	Eastern Asia
1969 Libyan coup d'état	01969-09-01-0000September 1, 1969	01969-09-01-0000September 1, 1969	Libya	North Africa
Black September in Jordan	01970-09-01-0000September 1, 1970	01971-07-01-0000July 1971	Jordan	Western Asia
Cambodian Civil War	01970-10-09-0000October 9, 1970	01975-04-17-0000April 17, 1975	Cambodia	Southeast Asia
Bangladesh Liberation War	01971-03-26-0000March 26, 1971	01971-12-16-0000December 16, 1971	Bangladesh	Southern Asia
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971	01971-12-03-0000December 3, 1971	01971-12-16-0000December 16, 1971	Bangladesh and Pakistan	Southern Asia
1973 Chilean coup d'état	01973-09-11-0000September 11, 1973	01973-09-11-0000September 11, 1973	Chile	South America
Yom Kippur War	01973-10-06-0000October 6, 1973	01973-10-25-0000October 25, 1973	Egypt and Syria	Western Asia
Carnation Revolution	01974-04-25-0000April 25, 1974	01974-04-25-0000April 25, 1974	Portugal	Southern Europe
Ethiopian Civil War	01974-11-28-0000November 28, 1974	01991-05-21-0000May 21, 1991	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa
Cambodian–Vietnamese War	01975-05-01-0000May 1, 1975	01989-09-26-0000September 26, 1989	Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand	Southeast Asia
Lebanese Civil War	01975-04-13-0000April 13, 1975	01990-10-13-0000October 13, 1990	Lebanon	Near East
Angolan Civil War	01975-11-11-0000November 11, 1975	02002-04-04-0000April 4, 2002	Angola	Southern Africa
Indonesian invasion of East Timor	01975-12-07-0000December 7, 1975	01976-07-17-0000July 17, 1976	East Timor	Southeast Asia
Operation Entebbe	01976-07-04-0000July 4, 1976	01976-07-04-0000July 4, 1976	Uganda	Western Africa
1976 Argentine coup d'état	01976-03-24-0000March 24, 1976	01976-03-24-0000March 24, 1976	Argentina	South America
Mozambican Civil War	01977-05-30-0000May 30, 1977	01992-10-15-0000October 15, 1992	Mozambique	Southern Africa
Ethio-Somali War	01977-07-13-0000July 13, 1977	01978-03-15-0000March 15, 1978	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa
Korean Air Lines Flight 902	01978-04-20-0000April 20, 1978	01978-04-20-0000April 20, 1978	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe
Iranian Revolution	01979-01-16-0000January 16, 1979	01979-02-01-0000February 1979	Iran	Southern Asia
Sino-Vietnamese War	01979-02-17-0000February 17, 1979	01979-03-16-0000March 16, 1979	China/Vietnam border	Southeast Asia
Salvadoran Civil War	01979-05-09-0000May 9, 1979	01992-01-16-0000January 16, 1992	El Salvador	Central America
Soviet war in Afghanistan	01979-12-24-0000December 24, 1979	01989-02-15-0000February 15, 1989	Afghanistan	Central Asia
Korean Air Lines Flight 007	01983-09-01-0000September 1, 1983	01983-09-01-0000September 1, 1983	Soviet Union	Eastern Asia
Falklands War	01982-04-02-0000April 2, 1982	01982-06-14-0000June 14, 1982	Falkland Islands,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	Atlantic Ocean
Invasion of Grenada	01983-10-25-0000October 25, 1983	01983-12-15-0000December 15, 1983	Grenada	Caribbean
People Power Revolution	01986-02-22-0000February 22, 1986	01986-02-25-0000February 25, 1986	Philippines	Asia
1986 United States bombing of Libya	01986-04-15-0000April 15, 1986	01986-04-15-0000April 15, 1986	Libya	North Africa
8888 Uprising	01988-03-12-0000March 12, 1988	01988-09-21-0000September 21, 1988	Burma	Asia
United States invasion of Panama	01989-12-20-0000December 20, 1989	01990-01-31-0000January 31, 1990	Panama	Central America
Revolutions of 1989	01989-03-09-0000March 9, 1989	01992-04-27-0000April 27, 1992	Various	Central/Eastern Europe
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989	01989-04-15-0000April 15, 1989	01989-06-04-0000June 4, 1989	China	Eastern Asia
Velvet Revolution	01989-11-17-0000November 17, 1989	01989-12-29-0000December 29, 1989	Czechoslovakia	Central Europe
1990 Democratic Revolution in Mongolia	01989-12-10-0000December 10, 1989	01990-03-09-0000March 9, 1990	Mongolia	Central Asia
Romanian Revolution	01989-12-16-0000December 16, 1989	01989-12-25-0000December 25, 1989	Romania	Central Europe
Gulf War	01990-08-02-0000August 2, 1990	01991-02-28-0000February 28, 1991	Iraq	Western Asia
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt	01991-08-19-0000August 19, 1991	01991-08-21-0000August 21, 1991	Soviet Union	Eastern Europe

References

^ The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, Norman Friedman (1999) ISBN 978-1557502643
^ The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Odd Arne Westad (2005) ISBN 978-0521853644

Cold War

USA USSR ANZUS NATO Non-Aligned Movement SEATO Warsaw Pact

1940s	Dekemvriana Yalta Conference Operation Unthinkable Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Operation Masterdom Operation Beleaguer Operation Blacklist Forty Iran crisis of 1946 Greek Civil War Corfu Channel incident Turkish Straits crisis Restatement of Policy on Germany First Indochina War Truman Doctrine Asian Relations Conference Marshall Plan 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Tito–Stalin split Berlin Blockade Western betrayal Iron Curtain Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Chinese Civil War (Second round) Malayan Emergency

1950s	Bamboo Curtain Korean War 1953 Iranian coup d'état Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Partition of Vietnam First Taiwan Strait Crisis Geneva Summit (1955) Poznań 1956 protests Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Suez Crisis Sputnik crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution Kitchen Debate Bandung Conference Bricker Amendment McCarthyism Operation Gladio Iraqi July Revolution "We will bury you"

1960s	Congo Crisis Sino-Soviet split 1960 U-2 incident Bay of Pigs Invasion 1960 Turkish coup d'état Soviet–Albanian split Berlin Wall Portuguese Colonial War (Angolan War of Independence Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Mozambican War of Independence) Cuban missile crisis Sino-Indian War Sarawak Communist Insurgency Iraqi Ramadan Revolution 1963 Syrian coup d'état Vietnam War 1964 Brazilian coup d'état United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66) South African Border War Transition to the New Order Domino theory ASEAN Declaration Laotian Civil War 1966 Syrian coup d'état Argentine Revolution Korean DMZ Conflict Greek military junta of 1967–74 USS Pueblo incident Six-Day War War of Attrition Cultural Revolution Prague Spring Malaysia Communist Insurgency War Invasion of Czechoslovakia Iraqi Ba'athist Revolution Goulash Communism Sino-Soviet border conflict Communist insurgency in the Philippines Corrective Move

1970s	Détente Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Black September in Jordan 1970 Syrian Corrective Revolution Cambodian Civil War Realpolitik Ping-pong diplomacy 1971 Turkish coup d'état Corrective Revolution (Egypt) Four Power Agreement on Berlin 1972 Nixon visit to China 1973 Chilean coup d'état Yom Kippur War Carnation Revolution Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Rhodesian Bush War Angolan Civil War Mozambican Civil War Ogaden War Ethiopian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Sino-Albanian split Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Iranian Revolution Operation Condor Dirty War Bangladesh Liberation War Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Seven Days to the River Rhine

1980s	Soviet war in Afghanistan 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts 1980 Turkish coup d'état 1986 Black Sea incident 1988 Black Sea bumping incident Solidarity Soviet reaction Contras Central American crisis RYAN Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Able Archer 83 Star Wars Invasion of Grenada People Power Revolution Nagorno-Karabakh War Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Revolutions of 1989 Glasnost Perestroika

1990s	Mongolian Revolution of 1990 Breakup of Yugoslavia Dissolution of the Soviet Union Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Frozen conflicts	Abkhazia China Korea Nagorno-Karabakh South Ossetia Transnistria Sino-Indian border dispute

Foreign policy	Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Containment Eisenhower Doctrine Domino theory Hallstein Doctrine Kennedy Doctrine Peaceful coexistence Ostpolitik Johnson Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Nixon Doctrine Ulbricht Doctrine Carter Doctrine Reagan Doctrine Rollback Sovereignty of Puerto Rico during the Cold War

Ideologies	Capitalism Chicago school Keynesianism Monetarism Neoclassical economics Reaganomics Supply-side economics Thatcherism Communism Marxism–Leninism Castroism Eurocommunism Guevarism Hoxhaism Juche Maoism Naxalism Stalinism Titoism Liberal democracy Social democracy

Organizations	ASEAN CIA Comecon EEC KGB Non-Aligned Movement SAARC Safari Club MI6 Stasi

Propaganda	Active measures Izvestia Pravda Crusade for Freedom Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Red Scare TASS Voice of America Voice of Russia

Races	Arms race Nuclear arms race Space Race

See also	Brinkmanship NATO–Russia relations Soviet espionage in U.S. Russian espionage in U.S. Soviet Union–United States relations US–Soviet summits

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