cold war By jshew25 Oct 14, 1890 dwight d eisenhower Aug 27, 1908 lyndon johnson Feb 6, 1911 ronald reagen Jan 9, 1913 richard nixon Jul 14, 1913 gerald ford Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963 john f kennedy Jun 12, 1924 geroge bus senior Oct 1, 1924 jimmy carter Aug 17, 1929 francis gary powers Period: Feb 1, 1931 to Apr 23, 2007 boris yeltsin lifespan Mar 2, 1931 gorbachev comes to power Sep 2, 1945 when did wwii end end of wwll Oct 24, 1945 when were the untied nations created Mar 5, 1946 churchills iron curtain speech Mar 12, 1946 truman doctrine Period: Apr 13, 1947 to May 13, 1950 chinas civil war Apr 3, 1948 marshall plan Period: Apr 13, 1948 to Apr 13, 1949 berline airlift Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 ussr's first atomic bomb test Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 korean war Nov 1, 1952 h bomb Mar 5, 1953 stallins death Jul 27, 1953 end of korean war Sep 8, 1954 seato May 14, 1955 warsaw pact Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 vietnam war Jan 5, 1957 eisenhower doctrine Oct 4, 1957 sputnik Apr 13, 1959 fidel castro take over Apr 16, 1961 bay of pigs Apr 13, 1964 mutually assured destruction/ mad plan Period: Apr 13, 1969 to Apr 13, 1976 SALT Jul 20, 1969 nasa first moon landing Dec 25, 1979 soviets invade afghanistan Jan 20, 1980 u.s. boycott of the summer olympics Feb 20, 1980 miracle on ice Mar 23, 1983 STAR WARS Apr 15, 1989 tiananmen square May 15, 1989 when did soviets leave afghanistan Nov 9, 1989 berlin wall Nov 9, 1989 berlin wall falls Dec 25, 1991 soviet union falls