Cold War By laurenpalmonte Period: Aug 8, 1876 to Sep 28, 1954 Pat McCarran PHOTO Period: Nov 11, 1904 to Nov 15, 1996 Alger Hiss PHOTO Period: Dec 19, 1906 to Nov 10, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev PHOTO Period: Feb 6, 1911 to Jun 5, 2004 Ronald Reagan PHOTO Period: Jul 28, 1937 to Jan 1, 1985 John Walker (to year of imprisonment) PHOTO1985 is the year of his imprisonment Period: Jan 1, 1938 to Jan 1, 1975 H.U.A.C. Jan 1, 1945 MAD Mutually Assured Destruction began with the Cold War Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine March 12, 1947 Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan (signed into law) Jun 15, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Detonation of Atomic Bomb Period: Aug 29, 1949 to Jan 1, 2001 Arms Race Oct 1, 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1956 McCarthyism/ Red Scare Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 1, 1953 Korean War Jul 1, 1950 Rosenberg Nov 1, 1952 H Bomb Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Jan 1, 1954 Domino Theory Jan 12, 1954 Massive Retaliation Period: Mar 13, 1954 to May 7, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Period: Jun 18, 1954 to Jun 27, 1954 Guatemalan Coup May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Period: Aug 2, 1955 to Jan 1, 1972 Space Race Feb 24, 1956 Khrushchev's Secret Speech Period: Dec 1, 1956 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Jan 1, 1959 Neutron Bomb First known use Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro This is the date he became Prime Minister of Cuba Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Jan 1, 1969 Trsscomm May 1, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Affair Apr 15, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 22, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 27, 1962 B-59 Submarine Incident Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Aug 30, 1963 Hotline Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Sep 30, 1965 Indonesian Coup Period: Jun 5, 1967 to Jun 10, 1967 Six Day War Jun 8, 1967 U.S.S. Liberty Jan 5, 1968 Prague Spring Rebellion Jan 30, 1968 Tet Offensive May 22, 1968 U.S.S. Scorpion Sep 26, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine Jan 1, 1969 VIetnamization Jan 1, 1969 Detente Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Jan 1, 1979 SALT Period: Apr 17, 1975 to Jan 1, 1979 Cambodia & Khmer Rouge Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Nov 9, 1979 NORAD Computer Glitch Period: Dec 1, 1979 to Feb 1, 1989 Afghanistan War Aug 31, 1980 Solidarity Emerged on this date Mar 23, 1983 SDI Proposed on this date Nov 7, 1983 Able Archer Exercise Period: Jan 1, 1985 to Jan 1, 1991 Perestroika Period: Jan 1, 1985 to Jan 1, 1991 Glasnost Mar 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev Elected on this date Jun 1, 1988 INF Treaty Oct 3, 1990 German Reunification
