Vietnam War

The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was a successful effort by the communist allies of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (or North Vietnam) to unite Vietnam into a single communist country. The Republic of Vietnam (or South Vietnam) and her capitalist allies were fighting against the unification and communism.

Cold War

Main events (1945–1961)	Main events (1962–1991)	Specific articles	Primary participants and other events
General timeline: Timeline of events 1940s: Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Iran Crisis Chinese Civil War Greek Civil War Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade 1950s: Korean War First Indochina War Algerian War of Independence Iranian Coup Guatemalan Coup East German Uprising First Taiwan Strait Crisis Hungarian Revolution Suez Crisis Sputnik Crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution 1960s: Vietnam War Congo Crisis Sino-Soviet Split U-2 Crisis of 1960 Bay of Pigs Invasion	1960s (continued): Cuban Missile Crisis Construction of the Berlin Wall U.S. Invasion of Dominican Republic Overthrow of Sukarno Bangkok Declaration Secret War in Laos Regime of the Colonels in Greece Prague Spring Détente Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1970s: Cambodian Civil War Ping Pong Diplomacy 1972 Nixon Visit to China Overthrow of Allende SALT I Angolan Civil War Ogaden War Third Indochina War SALT II Iranian Revolution 1980s: Soviet-Afghan War Salvadoran Civil War Polish Solidarity Movement Invasion of Grenada Fall of the Berlin Wall Revolutions of 1989 1990s: Dissolution of the USSR	Concepts: Communism Capitalism Iron Curtain Containment Truman Doctrine Maoism Revisionism Peaceful coexistence Domino Theory Eisenhower Doctrine Rollback Arms race Nuclear arms race McCarthyism Space Race Kennedy Doctrine Johnson Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Ostpolitik Nixon Doctrine Wars of national liberation Carter Doctrine Reagan Doctrine Glasnost Perestroika Contemporaneous conflicts: Nicaragua Arab-Israeli Conflict	NATO Warsaw Pact Non-Aligned Movement People's Republic of China Other specific articles: Second Red Scare Bricker Amendment Operation Condor Soviet espionage in US CIA Operation Gladio KGB Stasi European Community Comecon

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