Cold War By juliahitt Period: 1929 to Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin (in power) Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency Period: Apr 12, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953 Harry Truman Presidency 1947 The Truman Doctrine 1947 The Marshall Plan 1947 The Long Telegram Jun 24, 1948 The Berlin Blockade 1949 COMECON Apr 4, 1949 NATO May 1, 1950 Chinese Civil War Ends Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins Period: 1953 to 1964 Nikita Khrushchev (in power) Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidency Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Ends 1954 Geneva Accords (April-July) 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu (march - may) May 14, 1955 The Warsaw Pact Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Begins 1956 Student Led Protests In Budapest May 15, 1957 USSR Launch First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 1959 Fidel Castro Comes to Power Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy Presidency Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Construction Begins Oct 15, 1962 Americans Discover Soviet Missiles in Cuba Oct 28, 1962 USSR Agrees to Remove the Missiles Nov 2, 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem Death Period: Nov 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency Period: 1964 to 1982 Leonid Brezhnev (in power) Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965 American Troops in Vietnam (sent by Johnson) Aug 21, 1968 Red Army Puts Down Prague Spring Sep 26, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Aug 9, 1974 Richard Nixon Presidency May 26, 1972 SALT treaty 1973 US leaves Vietnam Period: Aug 9, 1974 to Jan 20, 1977 Gerald Ford Presidency Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Ends Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter Presidency 1979 Sandinistas Come to Power in Nicaragua Dec 25, 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Jan 23, 1980 Carter Doctrine Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 20, 1989 Ronald Reagan Presidency 1982 US Releases Cruise Missile Mar 23, 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (date of initiation) Period: 1985 to 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev (in power) 1989 Popular Demonstrations Break Out Across Eastern Europe Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls 1990 Free Elections in East Germany 1990 Germany Reunifies Dec 26, 1991 Soviet Union Dissolves