Talk:Timeline of the Cold War

Fischer-Spassky 1972

World championship match of the century anyone? 24.226.77.23 (talk) 13:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I've added it. 24.226.77.23 (talk) 13:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I've made a slight change, it now says the first official American champion instead of the first American champion, since most people consider Paul Morphy to have been World Champion during his day. I wish someone else cared. 24.226.77.23 (talk) 13:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Tidy up

I have gone through this article making the following changes:

• All instances of past tense(s) changed to present as per Timeline of chemistry noted as an example in Wikipedia:Timeline
• U.S. and U.S.S.R. to US and USSR as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
• Major increase in links to other articles
• One or two removals of indecipherable English and rewording of dubious prose
• Conversion of the few non-American English spellings to American English in the interests of consistency as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Removal of the section about the arrival of A-10 aircraft as it lacks relevance

There is still lots to be done on the referencing, and I may have missed a few style points, but it's a start. Davidelit (talk) 14:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Transition to New Order

Why isn't Indonesia's Transition to New Order listed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.7.241 (talk) 11:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Coinage of the Term 'Cold War'

It says in the article that Bernard Baruch coined the term 'Cold War' in 1947. Had George Orwell not already used the term in his article in The Observer of March 10, 1946? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.203.45 (talk) 16:31, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

SEATO's end

In this article, SEATO ended in June 1974. In fact, it ended in June 1977. Is it a mistake?? Ngoquangduong (talk) 02:24, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

1990

" October 4: In 24 years from now a retard will be born with the name of matt ordway. " - dafuq is this ??? 24.135.49.98 (talk) 16:26, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Was the peak of the Red Scare June 8, 1949?

I added "citation needed" to "June 8: The Red Scare reaches its peak, with the naming of numerous American celebrities as members of the Communist Party.". It'd be nice to have a better sense of when the "peak" is, but I suspect whatever month or year is identified is going to have the "-ish" suffix.  :-) -- RobLa (talk) 21:47, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Neutrality Dispute

I believe that many events in this timeline have been cherry-picked to make the U.S appear in a more positive light than the USSR. While also describing many arguably trivial events that occurred internally in the U.S with a lack of research into the Soviet equivalents of such events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OBRkenobi (talk • contribs) 22:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

USS Nautilus as a nuclear deterrent

The first line of the chapter about 1954 reads "January 21: The United States launches the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus. The nuclear submarine would become the ultimate nuclear deterrent." This seems to be a misunderstanding by the author of this lines. If I'm not mistaken, the USS Nautilus had a nuclear-driven propulsion, but she was not a submarine carrying rockets with nuclear warheads, as did later submarines (which normally had, but did not necessarily need to have, nuclear-driven propulsion). Therefore she could not play a role as a nuclear deterrent, even less be the ultimate one. I suggest removing the second sentence. --Payton M. (talk) 19:08, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Summary

Can we have a "§Summary" section for each decade? There's too much information here. decearing egg <talk> 06:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

December 7, 1975

On Dec. 7, 1975, it has Indonesia's occupation of East Timor. It says an estimated 100,000 - 180,000 will be killed in the 25-year occupation. It should be "were killed". It might also be the previous estimate from 1975, and if so, maybe someone should look into the actual death count. Bashstash01 (talk) 00:53, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Addition of events not related to the cold war

User Qhairun has made about a hundred edits to this article, adding things that have nothing to do with the Cold War, such as the Malagasy Uprising, the 1969 Northern Ireland riots, and the Football War. What we're left with is just a list of things that hit the headlines between 1945 and 1991. Somebody with the time and the motivation needs to go back and remove all the irrelevant events. Scolaire (talk) 08:57, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Comment: I can't see that anyone has informed @User Qhairun:, either here or on their Talk page, whats going on other than a running battle on "Edit summary"s. I'm not sure, with what is showing, that English is their first language (not that it has to be). I don't know if it will do any good, but the first line of the intro includes "main events", could discussing what a "main event" is be of some help? Maybe it's just opening a can of worms, but least a place to start with? Sammy D III (talk) 11:17, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

I didn't "contact" Qhairun (if "contact" means post on their talk page) because I believe that content issues in a single article should be discussed on the article talk page, not a user talk page. I did ping Qhairun in my original post. Since it seems nobody else is bothered by the list being bloated with non-Cold-War-related stuff, I'll just unwatch this page and walk away. Happy editing. Scolaire (talk) 12:13, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Well, let's see if we can understand each other. If you ping a non-existent User page does that User get notified somewhere else? If so, I apologize, I didn't think they did. That's why I posted "I can't see' that anyone has informed" (italics added). I didn't notice that you linked to their contribs (there was no "@"), would they know that they had been linked?

I also "believe that content issues in a single article should be discussed on the article talk page". This is it.

You are transferring your anger at someone who hasn't taken any position at all. I absolutely agree that those edits are all crap and should go, I just think you should tell a possibly second language rook why they should shut up. To me that's sort of a common courtesy, even outside Wikipedia and without AGF. Posting a notice on the talk page of an account without a User page isn't all that hard.

If a single well-meant process comment makes you think you should "just unwatch this page and walk away" then maybe you should. You're not going to walk before you read this, though. Sammy D III (talk) 13:04, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

@Sammy D III: You're quite right! I did link to Qhairun's contributions, not his user page, so he would not have got a ping. Apologies to you and Qhairun, and thank you for pinging him for me. Since he hasn't responded to the ping, however, he apparently has no intention of discussing his edits. If you believe he should be notified on his user talk page, then by all means do so. I don't. This page, as I said and you agree, is where discussion should take place.

I wasn't "transferring my anger" at anybody – I wasn't angry at all – and I didn't walk away because of your well-meant process comment. I walked because only one editor (you) had bothered to respond, and you, as you say, hadn't taken any position at all. You now say you agree with me. Great! But it doesn't remove all the bad edits. I don't have the time or the expertise to do it, and it seems no-one else does either, so I'm going to continue to stay away.

Please don't respond to comment further about my behaviour. This is a content discussion (and I'm not watching it, and I won't check back again). Scolaire (talk) 12:00, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

history

satilite states 2A02:C7F:DA66:4B00:8DB4:159B:316D:B5D9 (talk) 19:47, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Cold War Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 11 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): TJMarti (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by TJMarti (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2023 (UTC)