Cold War By cheezypopcorn Period: Jan 20, 1922 to Jan 20, 1953 Joseph Stalin Period: Jan 20, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Period: Jan 20, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953 Harry S. Truman Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Sep 2, 1945 Japan Surrenders Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchhill "Iron Curtain" speech Period: Jan 20, 1947 to Jan 20, 1977 Generald Ford Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine announced Apr 3, 1948 Truman signs the Marshall Plan Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949 Berlin Airlift Apr 4, 1949 NATO formed Oct 1, 1949 Mao Zedong gains power in China Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 2, 1953 Korean War Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961 Dwight B. Eisenhower Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1964 Nikita Krushev Apr 7, 1954 Eisenhower cities "Domino Theory" May 8, 1954 Geneva Accords May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed Jan 7, 1959 Castro gains power in Cuba Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Built Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Period: Jan 20, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Period: Jan 20, 1964 to Jan 20, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Period: Jan 1, 1965 to Jan 23, 1975 Vietnam War Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Jan 20, 1974 Richard M. Nixon Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter Jan 20, 1980 US boycotts Moscow Olympics Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 28, 1989 Ronald Wilson Reagon Period: Jan 20, 1982 to Jan 20, 1984 Yuri Andropov Period: Jan 20, 1984 to Jan 20, 1985 Konstantin Chermenko May 8, 1984 USSR boycotts Lis Angeles Olympics Period: Jan 20, 1985 to Jan 20, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev Period: Jan 20, 1989 to Jan 20, 1993 George H.W. Bush Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Torn Down Oct 3, 1990 German Reunification Apr 9, 1995 Gorbachev announces glasnost and perestroika
