Map of Cold-War era Europe and the Near East showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. The red columns show the relative amount of total aid received per nation. European economic alliances Main articles: Marshall Plan, Western Bloc, and Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 In early 19...
Probably the conflict that saw the biggest tanks battles of the cold war, the “6-days war” as it was known started with surprise preventives strikes, targeted against Egyptian air force…The 6-days war. Conquest of Sinai by the IDF. A map of Operation Gazelle, the encirclement of the ...
Map showing Ifni and the territory occupied by Spanish forces in 1957 (light brown) and 1958 (light reddish brown) – source: Wikipedia Members of the Army of Liberation took the war south into the territory collectively known as Spanish Sahara, with a strategy of using the desert dunes ...
In Chatham, a river town in the far southeast, a Soviet map from 1984 showed the dockyards where the Royal Navy built submarines during the Cold War—a region occupied by blank space on contemporary British maps. The Soviet map of Chatham also includes the dimensions, carrying capacity, cleara...
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
NATO and Warsaw pact. Note the dates at which countries joined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War#/media/File:NATO_vs._Warsaw_(1949-1990).svg SEATO. September 1954 - June 1977 (member states only) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization#/media/File:Map_of...
The Allies disagreed about how the European map should look, and how borders would be drawn, following the war. Each side held dissimilar ideas regarding the establishment and maintenance of post-war security. Some scholars contend that all the Western A
Historical Map of South American nations (28 October 1962 - Cold War reaches Latin America: Less than a month after the signing of the Rio Pact in 1948 - and while the Organization of American States Charter was being finalized in Bogota - civil war brok
The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the decline of the old great powers and the rise of two superpowers: the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (U.S.), who soon entered the Cold War. ...
The leftover structures of a Cold War missile silo in Wisconsin help tell the story of a not-so-distant part of our history.