cold war By alainanobbe 1945 Harry S. Truman is president 1945 Separation of Berlin 1945 Igor Gouzenko (KGB in Canada) 1945 Greek Civil War Aug 29, 1945 Russian downing of B-29 Hog Wild Sep 2, 1945 End of World War II 1946 First Indochina War 1947 Birth of Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Apr 26, 1952 Sinking of the USS Hobson 1953 The Berlin Tunnel 1954 U.S. involvement in Guatemala Aug 1, 1954 Tiawan Crisis 1955 Bomber gap 1955 The Warsaw Pact Oct 23, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Jan 1, 1959 The Cuban Revolution 1960 Peace Corps May 1, 1960 U2 incident Apr 12, 1961 Space Race Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 John F. Kennedy assasination Jun 5, 1967 Six day war Jun 8, 1967 USS Liberty incident May 22, 1968 USS Scorpion submarine sinking Aug 20, 1968 Czechoslovakia uprising 1971 Pentagon papers 1972 SALT I and SALT II 1973 Coup d'etat in Chile 1975 Khmer Rouge and Cambodia Apr 3, 1975 Operation baby lift Apr 30, 1975 The Fall of Saigon 1977 Somalia, Ethiopia, and the Ogaden War 1978 Afghan War 1979 Neutron bomb 1979 Iran hostage crisis 1980 Moscow Olympic games 1982 Falklands War 1983 Gernada 1983 The Strategic Defense Initiative 1984 Ortega and Nicaragua 1985 Mikhail Gorchebev general secretary Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 1989 Tiananmen Square 1989 Ceausescu and Romania Nov 9, 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1990 Nelson Mandela and South Africa Aug 2, 1990 Desert Storm Sep 2, 1990 beginning of Gulf War Oct 3, 1990 Reunification of Germany 1991 Boris Yeltsin President of Russia 1991 Fall of the Soviet Union Feb 28, 1991 End of Gulf War Aug 19, 1991 Soviet coup attempt Dec 31, 1991 Soviet Union Institutions cease operations 1992 William Jefferson Clinton President
