List of conflicts related to the Cold War
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While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks).[1][2]
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| Gulf War | August 2, 1990 | February 28, 1991 |  Kuwait  United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia Egypt France
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| Yugoslav Wars | March 31, 1991 | November 12, 2001 |  Slovenia Croatia Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina NATO KLA UÇPMB
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| 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt | August 19, 1991 | August 21, 1991 |  All-Union Government of the USSR
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See also
[edit]- History of Communism (September 3, 1945 - December 31, 1992)
- List of wars 1945-1989
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Suryanarayan, V. (1981). "Presidential Address: India and the Indonesian Revolution". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 42: 549–562. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44141175.
- ^ Miyata, Osamu (July 1987), "The Tudeh Military Network during the Oil Nationalization Period", Middle Eastern Studies, 23 (3): 313–328, doi:10.1080/00263208708700709, JSTOR 4283187
- ^ The Power of Freedom - Central and Eastern Europe after 1945. Unitas Foundation. 2010. ISBN 978-9949-21-479-2.
- ^ Hochman 1998, p. 52.
- ^ Palestine Post, "Israel's Bedouin Warriors", Gene Dison, August 12, 1948
- ^ AFP (24 April 2013). "Bedouin army trackers scale Israel social ladder". Al Arabiya English. Al Arabiya. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d Oren 2003, p. 5.
- ^ Morris (2008), p. 260.
- ^ Gelber, pp. 55, 200, 239
- ^ Morris, Benny (2008), 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, Yale University Press, p. 205, New Haven, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9.
- ^ HENRY W. BRANDS JR. (1987). "Redefining the Cold War: American Policy toward Yugoslavia, 1948–60". Diplomatic History. 11 (1). Oxford University Press: 41–53. JSTOR 24911740. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ Kim, Heesu (1996). Anglo-American Relations and the Attempts to Settle the Korean Question 1953–1960 (PDF) (Thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science. p. 213. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ Wilford, Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Basic Books. pp. 135–139. ISBN 978-0465019656.
... whether or not the CIA dealt directly with the Free Officers prior to their July 1952 coup, there was extensive secret American-Egyptian contact in the months after the revolution.
- ^ Morsy, Laila Amin (1995). "American Support for the 1952 Egyptian Coup: Why?". Middle Eastern Studies. 31 (2): 307–316. doi:10.1080/00263209508701055. ISSN 0026-3206. JSTOR 4283718.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Wolf-Hunnicutt, Brandon (2011). The End of the Concessionary Regime: Oil and American Power in Iraq, 1958-1972. Stanford University. p. 36.
- ^ Davies, Eric (2005). Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. University of California Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780520235465.
- ^ "Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot - UPI.com". UPI. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Entessar, Nader (2010). Kurdish Politics in the Middle East.
- ^ McDowall 2005, p. 304.
- ^ Batatu (25 January 2013). The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. ISBN 9780863567711.
- ^ Mohammed Mughisuddin (1977), [1] p. 153
- ^ https://www.cipdh.gob.ar/memorias-situadas/en/lugar-de-memoria/biafran-war-memories/#:~:text=The%20Nigerian%20Civil%20War%2C%20also,the%20name%20of%20Biafra%20Republic.
- ^ Farrell, Tom (March 12, 2014). "North Korea's role in Sri Lanka's bloody insurgencies". NK News. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017.
Notes
[edit]- ^ from 1946
- ^ claimed neutrality
- ^ a b c until 1946
- ^ 1948-1949, after Operation Kraai
- ^ after 1947
- ^ Founded as the Czech National Social Party in 1897, the party's name was changed to the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in 1926.[6]
- ^ a b After 22 September 1948
- ^ Lebanon had decided to not participate in the war and only took part in the battle of al-Malikiya on 5–6 June 1948.[10]
- ^ On 9 July 1951 troop constituents were: US: 70.4%; ROK: 23.3%; other UNC: 6.3%.[14]
- ^ a b Covertly