Alternative History
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President Gaitan
Colombian Politics
US Politics
World Politics
  • Cold War
Differences with OTL

The Cold War was the confrontation between the Capiltalist Democracies lead by the United States of America, and the Comunist regimes lead by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, since the end of World War II in 1945 to the desintegration of the Soviet Union in 1998.

It is called "Cold War" as there was no direct armed confrontation between the two blocks, except for inteligence gathering, and the armed confrontations occured on countries outside the blocks. This confrontations received the name of "Proxy Wars".

Beginning of the Cold War

Proxy Wars

  • Korea War
  • Vietnam War
  • Bay of pigs invasion

Related Internal Conflicts and Civil Wars

  • Cuban Civil War

Disintegration of the Soviet Union

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