Cold War By tilihalles 1945 Yalta Conference 1945 VE Day 1945 Potsdam Conference 1945 Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Iron Curtain Speech 1945 Salami Tactics 1947 COMINFORM 1947 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan 1948 Berlin Blockade 1949 NATO Formation 1950 Korean War 1953 Stalin's Death 1954 Geneva Accords 1955 Warsaw Pact 1956 Hungarian Revolution 1956 Suez Crisis 1957 Space Race 1961 Bay of Pigs 1961 Constructions of Berlin Wall 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 JFK Assassination 1964 Khrushchev removed as Premier 1965 Vietnam War 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechslovakia 1973 End of Vietnam War 1975 Cambodian Genocide 1975 Fall of Saigon 1979 Iran hostage crisis 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1980 Poland martial law 1985 Gorbachev becomes Soviet Premier 1987 Glasnost / Perestroika Soviet policies 1989 Soviets leave Afghanistan 1989 Tiananmen Square 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 Velvet Revolution 1990 End of Warsaw Pact 1991 End of the Soviet Union