Cold War (1948–1953)

Cold War (1948–1953)
Part of the Cold War

1953 World Map of alignments.
Date1948–1953
Location
Belligerents
Western Bloc:
United States
United Kingdom
Marshall Plan (until 1949)
NATO (from 1949)
 Republic of China (until 1949)
Republic of China (Taiwan) (from 1949)
/ South Korea
Eastern Bloc:
Soviet Union
Molotov Plan (until 1949)
Comecon (from 1949)
Chinese Communists (until 1949)
People's Republic of China (from 1949)
North Korea (1950–1953)
Anti-Soviet socialist state:
 Yugoslavia (from 1948)

The Cold War (1948–1953) is the period within the Cold War from the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.

The list of world leaders in these years is as follows: