The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union,
Mao Zedong (left) and Nikita Khrushchev (right) in Beijing, 1957
Mao Zedong meeting with Richard Nixon in 1972, after the Sino-Soviet split
John F. Kennedy meets with Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, in 1962
U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder all-weather bombers in 1968
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc. It b
Cold War in Asia
…The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea…
Remains of the "Iron Curtain" in the Czech Republic, 2014
American C-47s unloading at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Blockade
President Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty with guests in the Oval Office
Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel sworn into the newly founded Bundeswehr by Theodor Blank in November 1955