cold war event

president theodore

Period: Mar 25, 1933 to Mar 25, 1945

Leader Josef Stalin

Period: Mar 26, 1941 to Mar 26, 1953

yalta conference

Feb 4, 1945

president trumen

Period: Mar 25, 1945 to Mar 25, 1953

postdam confrence

Jul 17, 1945

japan surrenders (ends WWII)

Sep 2, 1945

winston churchill iron curtain speech

May 5, 1946

Truman Doctirine announced

Mar 12, 1947

truman signs marshall plan

Apr 3, 1948

berlin airlift

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949

mao zedong gains power in china

Jan 1, 1949

nato formed

Apr 4, 1949

korean war

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

president eisenhower

Period: Mar 25, 1953 to Mar 25, 1961

leader George M. Malenkov

Period: Mar 26, 1953 to Mar 26, 1955

eisenhower cites domino theory

Apr 7, 1954

geneva accords

May 8, 1954

leader Nicolai A. Bulganin

Period: Mar 26, 1955 to Mar 26, 1958

warsaw pact formed

May 14, 1955

leader Nikita S. Khrushchev

Period: Mar 26, 1958 to Mar 26, 1964

castro gains power in cuba

Feb 16, 1959

president kennedy

Period: Mar 25, 1961 to Mar 25, 1963

bay of pigs invasion

Apr 17, 1961

berlin wall built

Aug 15, 1961

cubin missle crisis

Oct 14, 1962

president johnson

Period: Mar 25, 1963 to Mar 25, 1969

golf of tonkin resolution

Jan 1, 1964

Leader Leonid L. Brezhnev

Period: Mar 26, 1964 to Mar 26, 1982

Vietnam war

Period: Mar 26, 1965 to Apr 30, 1975

president nixon

Period: Mar 25, 1969 to Mar 25, 1974

Salt I

Jan 8, 1972

president ford

Period: Mar 25, 1974 to Mar 25, 1977

president carter

Period: Mar 25, 1977 to Mar 25, 1981

U.S. boycotts moscow olympics

Jan 20, 1980

president reagon

Period: Mar 25, 1981 to Mar 25, 1989

Leader Yuri V. Andropov

Period: Mar 26, 1982 to Mar 26, 1984

USSR boycotts los angeles olympics

Mar 26, 1984

Leader Konstantin U. Chernenleo

Period: Mar 26, 1984 to Mar 26, 1985

gorbachev announces glasnostand perestrokia

Jan 1, 1985

Leader Milehail S. Gorbachev

Period: Mar 26, 1985 to Mar 26, 1991

president bush

Period: Mar 25, 1989 to Mar 25, 1993

berlin wall destroyed

Nov 9, 1989

german reunification

Jan 1, 1990

Soviet Union dissolved

Dec 1, 1991