Cold War Era By momobsaywat Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference May 8, 1945 V E Day Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Aug 8, 1945 Nagasaki Mar 5, 1946 Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade 1949 End of Berlin Blockade Apr 4, 1949 NATO formed Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Beginning 1951 Mutual Security Act 1952 Test of Ivy Mike Jul 27, 1953 Korean War 1954 Geneva Accords May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Oct 23, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Nov 1, 1957 First living thing in Space Jul 1, 1958 July Revolution Aug 7, 1959 Explorer 6 is Launched 1960 Paris East/West talks Apr 12, 1961 First Human In Space Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassination 1964 China tests first atomic bomb 1965 Troops sent to Vietnam War 1966 South African Border War 1967 Bangkok Declaration Aug 20, 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia 1969 First Mann on the Moon 1970 Vietnam War Apr 30, 1970 More troops sent to Vietnam Sep 3, 1971 Four Power Agreement Aug 15, 1973 SALT Apr 17, 1975 Cambodia Killing fields Apr 30, 1975 North Vietnam Invades Jul 1, 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Jan 7, 1977 Jimmy Carter becomes President Nov 4, 1979 Iranian hostage crisis Dec 24, 1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan Jul 1, 1980 Olympic Boycott by USA Dec 13, 1980 Martial Law Declared in Poland Jan 20, 1981 Iranian hostage crisis ended Jun 1, 1982 START proposed Jul 1, 1984 Olympic boycott by Russia Mar 11, 1985 Govbachov leader of USSR Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Disaster Jul 1, 1987 Glasnost and Perestroika Feb 15, 1989 Soviet troops leave Afghanistan Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Mar 1, 1990 Lithuania becomes independent May 29, 1990 Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia Oct 3, 1990 German reunification Jun 1, 1991 Desert storm victory parade in Washington D.C Jul 1, 1991 End of Warsaw Pact Jul 1, 1991 START treaty signed reducing nuclear weapons Jul 31, 1991 START signed between US and Russia Dec 25, 1991 Gorbachev resigned Dec 26, 1991 End of the Soviet Union May 11, 1995 Non-Proliferation Treaty
