The end of World War II; capitalism versus communism; the Iron Curtain and the Truman Doctrine; rivalry in Europe - the Berlin Airlift; NATO and the Warsaw Pact; communist victory in China, war in Korea; after Stalin; Khrushchev and Kennedy - Berlin to Cuba; Suez and the West's oil supply; the war in Vietnam; the Middle East 1967-87; rivalry in the 1980s; superpower rivalry timechart.
