The Cold War was a major geopolitical conflict that took place between 1947 and 1991. The Cold War would see major shifts in the political environment across the world, including decolonization and the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union.

Proxy wars/battles

Asia

• Chinese Civil War
• First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• Korean War
• Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• Sino-Soviet Split
• Sino-Indian War
• Vietnam War
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• Sino-Vietnamese War
• Soviet-Afghan War

Europe

• First Nagorno-Karabakh War
• Ten-Day War
• Croatian War of Independence

Middle East

• 1956 Suez Crisis
• Six Day War
• War of Attrition
• Yom Kippur/Ramadan War
• Iran-Iraq War
• 1982 Lebanon War
• Toyota War
• Gulf War

Africa

• South African Border War
• Angolan Civil War
• Rhodesian Bush War
• Ethiopian Civil War
• Egyptian–Libyan War

South America

• Falklands War