Cold War

Joseph Stalin

Period: Jan 20, 1922 to Jan 20, 1953

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Period: Jan 20, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

Harry S. Truman

Period: Jan 20, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Potsdam Conference

Jul 17, 1945

Japan Surrenders

Sep 2, 1945

Winston Churchhill "Iron Curtain" speech

Mar 5, 1946

Generald Ford

Period: Jan 20, 1947 to Jan 20, 1977

Truman Doctrine announced

Mar 12, 1947

Truman signs the Marshall Plan

Apr 3, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949

NATO formed

Apr 4, 1949

Mao Zedong gains power in China

Oct 1, 1949

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 2, 1953

Dwight B. Eisenhower

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961

Nikita Krushev

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1964

Eisenhower cities "Domino Theory"

Apr 7, 1954

Geneva Accords

May 8, 1954

Warsaw Pact formed

May 14, 1955

Castro gains power in Cuba

Jan 7, 1959

John F. Kennedy

Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Berlin Wall Built

Aug 13, 1961

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 14, 1962

Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: Jan 20, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969

Leonid Brezhnev

Period: Jan 20, 1964 to Jan 20, 1982

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

Vietnam War

Period: Jan 1, 1965 to Jan 23, 1975

Richard M. Nixon

Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Jan 20, 1974

Jimmy Carter

Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981

US boycotts Moscow Olympics

Jan 20, 1980

Ronald Wilson Reagon

Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 28, 1989

Yuri Andropov

Period: Jan 20, 1982 to Jan 20, 1984

Konstantin Chermenko

Period: Jan 20, 1984 to Jan 20, 1985

USSR boycotts Lis Angeles Olympics

May 8, 1984

Mikhail Gorbachev

Period: Jan 20, 1985 to Jan 20, 1991

George H.W. Bush

Period: Jan 20, 1989 to Jan 20, 1993

Berlin Wall Torn Down

Nov 9, 1989

German Reunification

Oct 3, 1990

Gorbachev announces glasnost and perestroika

Apr 9, 1995