Cold War - class timeline By hmake Period: Jan 1, 1944 to Dec 31, 1993 Cold War events Sep 2, 1945 Yalta Sep 2, 1946 Iron Curtain Sep 2, 1947 marshall plan Sep 2, 1947 Truman Doctrine Sep 2, 1948 Berlin Airlift Sep 2, 1949 China communist takeover Sep 2, 1950 Korean War Sep 2, 1951 Rosenberg case Sep 2, 1952 H Bomb Sep 2, 1953 Stalin dies; Korean War ends Sep 2, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Sep 2, 1954 massive retaliation Sep 2, 1954 Guatemalan coup Sep 2, 1957 sputnik Sep 2, 1959 Castro Sep 2, 1960 U2 affair Sep 2, 1961 Bay of Pigs Sep 2, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Sep 2, 1963 Hot line Sep 2, 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution Sep 2, 1967 Six Day War Sep 2, 1968 Prague Spring Sep 2, 1968 Tet Offensive Sep 2, 1969 SALT Sep 2, 1969 Vietnamization Sep 2, 1972 Nixon visits China Sep 2, 1973 Vietnam War agreement Sep 2, 1975 Cambodia Sep 2, 1979 Afghanistan Sep 2, 1980 Solidarity Sep 2, 1983 Star Wars Sep 2, 1985 Gorbachev comes to power Sep 2, 1987 INF Sep 2, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Sep 2, 1991 End USSR