Major crises of the period included the Gulf War, Yugoslav Wars, the First and Second Congo Wars, First and Second Chechen War, September 11 attacks, War in ... Background · Subsequent events after the... · Technology

July 27: An armistice formally ends the Korean War, which killed three million people and cost the U.S. 54,000 lives and $22 billion.

Articles relating to the Post–Cold War era, a period of history that follows the end of the Cold War, which represents history after the 1991 fall of the ...

September 4: USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan. October - November : Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. October 29: Suez Crisis began with Israeli ...

China has emerged as a post-Cold War superpower while nations like Germany, Japan and India have grown and prospered.

In the next 20 years, the Cold War spawned many tensions between the two superpowers abroad and fears of Communist subversion gripped domestic politics at home.

During the Cold War period, the. Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons in 1949, Great Britain in 1954,. France in 1960 and China in 1964. Earlier, a Partial ...

This struggle, known as the Cold War, lasted from about 1947 to 1991, beginning with the second Red Scare and ending with the Dissolution of the. Soviet Union.

'Post-Cold War' refers to the period following the end of the Cold War in 1991, characterized by a shift in global geopolitics and the emergence of new ...

1989-2000. The Post-Cold War Era. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a massive shift in the international balance of power and left the United ...