Cold War By Bert the Turtle Period: Jan 28, 1950 to Jan 28, 1989 The Cold War Mar 5, 1953 Stalin Dies- Sets off Power Strugger Jan 5, 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine Oct 20, 1957 Sputnik Satellite Jan 31, 1958 America's First Satelite in Space Jan 1, 1960 Kennedy Administration Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 16, 1964 China Becomes World's 5th Nuclear Power Mar 8, 1965 Korean War escalates Apr 28, 1969 Nixon Administration Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 to the Moon Feb 21, 1972 Nixon Visits China Nov 4, 1978 Iranian Hostage Crisis Dec 25, 1978 Communist Regime Installed in Afghanistan Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Disaster Dec 7, 1988 Gorbachev to UN "USSR will no longer interfere with Eastern Europe" Jun 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
