Cold War By liziadevaia Mar 4, 1933 McCarran May 26, 1938 House of Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C) Jul 1, 1944 Bretton Woods Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference February 4th-11th, 1945 Aug 6, 1945 Arms Race Period: Jan 1, 1946 to Dec 31, 1957 Baby Boom Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Mar 5, 1946 McCarthyism Feb 17, 1947 "Voices of America" Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marchall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airflift Aug 3, 1948 Alger Hiss Nov 1, 1948 Dennis vs. U.S. Jan 5, 1949 Fair Deal Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviets Detonation of the Atomic Bomb Oct 1, 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution Apr 14, 1950 NSC-68 Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Nov 1, 1952 H-Bomb Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg Spy Case Jan 12, 1954 Massive Retalliation Mar 13, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Apr 7, 1954 Domino Theory Jul 18, 1954 Guatemalan Coup May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Feb 25, 1956 Khrushchev's Secret Speech Jun 29, 1956 Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik (Start of Space Race) Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Affair Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Built Dec 15, 1961 Trsscomm Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Feb 19, 1963 Feminine Mystique Jun 20, 1963 Hotline Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Oct 14, 1964 Leonid Brezhnev Sep 30, 1965 Indonesian Coup May 6, 1966 Cultural Revolution (China) Jun 5, 1967 Six Day War Jun 8, 1967 U.S.S. Liberty Jan 5, 1968 Prague Spring Rebellion Jan 30, 1968 Tet Offensive Period: Apr 1, 1968 to Nov 1, 1985 John Walker May 22, 1968 U.S.S. Scorpion Sep 2, 1968 National Defense and Education Act (NDEA) Jan 20, 1969 SALT I Jul 20, 1969 End of Space Race Sep 28, 1969 Vietnamization Jul 1, 1971 Detente Jun 23, 1972 Title IX Aug 9, 1974 First Unelected President Apr 17, 1975 Cambodia and Khmer Rogue Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Nov 17, 1978 Neutron Bomb Nov 27, 1978 Gorbachev Jun 18, 1979 SALT II Period: Dec 27, 1979 to Feb 1, 1989 Afghanistan War Jul 25, 1980 M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) Sep 18, 1980 Solidarity Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan Mar 23, 1983 SDI (Star Wars) Mar 1, 1985 Glasnost Jul 1, 1986 Perestroika Dec 8, 1987 INF Treaty Oct 3, 1990 German Reunification
