api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: yaml
dataset:
  id: 2748
  slug: cold-war-events
  title: Cold War Events
  description: Key events of the Cold War.
  summary: Key events of the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with the year and a short description of each. Additional rows add the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Warsaw Pact, uprisings in Eastern Europe, arms-control treaties and the reunification of Germany.
  use_when:
    - You need a dated sequence of Cold War flashpoints and turning points.
    - You want to connect an event to the alliance system behind it.
  caveats:
    - Events overlap and the rows are not a complete chronology; they are anchors.
    - Descriptions are brief and cannot show the contested interpretations of causes and responsibility.
  related:
    - world-wars-timeline
    - modern-history-turning-points
    - major-us-constitutional-amendments
  entry_count: 17
  fields:
    - section: data
      field: event
      type: string
      example: Truman Doctrine
    - section: data
      field: year
      type: integer
      example: "1947"
    - section: data
      field: description
      type: string
      example: US policy to contain Soviet expansion.
  category: History
  category_slug: history
  tags: history,cold-war,events
  view_count: 54
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data:
  - event: Truman Doctrine
    year: 1947
    description: US policy to contain Soviet expansion.
  - event: Berlin Blockade
    year: 1948
    description: Soviet blockade of West Berlin; resolved by airlift.
  - event: Korean War
    year: 1950
    description: Conflict between North and South Korea.
  - event: Cuban Missile Crisis
    year: 1962
    description: Confrontation over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
  - event: Berlin Wall falls
    year: 1989
    description: Symbolic end of division in Germany.
  - event: Dissolution of Soviet Union
    year: 1991
    description: End of the Soviet state and the Cold War.
  - event: Marshall Plan
    year: 1948
    description: United States aid program to rebuild Western European economies after World War II.
  - event: NATO founded
    year: 1949
    description: Western military alliance formed with the North Atlantic Treaty.
  - event: Soviet atomic bomb test
    year: 1949
    description: The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon, ending the US monopoly.
  - event: Warsaw Pact formed
    year: 1955
    description: Eastern Bloc military alliance led by the Soviet Union.
  - event: Hungarian Revolution
    year: 1956
    description: Uprising against Soviet-backed rule, suppressed by Soviet forces.
  - event: Berlin Wall built
    year: 1961
    description: East Germany erected a barrier dividing East and West Berlin.
  - event: Prague Spring
    year: 1968
    description: Czechoslovak reform movement ended by a Warsaw Pact invasion.
  - event: SALT I agreements
    year: 1972
    description: First US-Soviet agreements limiting strategic nuclear arms.
  - event: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
    year: 1979
    description: Start of a decade-long war that drained the Soviet Union.
  - event: INF Treaty
    year: 1987
    description: US-Soviet treaty eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
  - event: German reunification
    year: 1990
    description: East and West Germany became one state.