Cold War Timeline

Yalta

Feb 4, 1945

Arms Race

Mar 11, 1945

H-Bomb

Jul 1, 1945

H.U.A.C

Dec 3, 1945

House of Un-American Activities Committee. (1945-91)

Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

Winston Churchill's speech

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Marshall Plan

Jun 21, 1947

Berlin Airlift

Jan 1, 1948

Alger Hiss

Mar 11, 1948

(1948-1950)

Chinese Communist Revolution

Mar 11, 1949

NATO

Apr 4, 1949

Space Race

Mar 11, 1950

Domino Theory

Mar 11, 1950

(1950-80)

McCarthyism/ Red Scare

May 11, 1950

Korean War

Jun 24, 1950

Mccarran

Jul 12, 1952

Stalins Death

Mar 5, 1953

Guatemalan Coup

Mar 1, 1954

Massive Retaliation

Mar 11, 1954

Dien Bien Phu

May 7, 1954

Warsaw Pact

Feb 1, 1955

Khrushev's Secret Speech

Jun 1, 1956

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

Rosenberg Spy Case

Dec 11, 1957

M.A.D

Feb 1, 1958

Mutually Assured Destruction

Fidel Castro

Jan 13, 1959

Vietnam War

Apr 30, 1959

(1959-1975)

Bay of Pigs

Apr 4, 1960

U-2 Spy Plane Affair

May 18, 1960

Berlin Wall

Aug 17, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 14, 1962

Hotline

Mar 11, 1963

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Mar 11, 1963

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 2, 1964

Leonid Brezhnev

Sep 1, 1964

Indonesian Coup

Nov 1, 1966

Six Day War

Mar 1, 1967

USS Liberty

Apr 2, 1967

Tet Offensive

Feb 1, 1968

SALT

Mar 10, 1968

Prague Spring Rebellion

Mar 11, 1968

U.S.S Scorpion

Mar 11, 1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

Sep 1, 1968

Vietnamization

Feb 12, 1969

Detente

Jan 1, 1970

Helsinki Accords

Feb 1, 1975

Cambodia & Khmer Rouge

Apr 1, 1975

Afghanistan War

Jan 1, 1979

Solidarity

Mar 2, 1980

Glasnost

Jun 1, 1980

Ronald Regan

Dec 1, 1980

SDI (Starwars)

Jan 1, 1983

Gorbachev

Jan 1, 1985

Perestroika

Mar 1, 1987

INF Treaty

Mar 11, 1987

German Reunification

Mar 1, 1990

Neutron Bomb

Mar 11, 1992

John Walker

Mar 11, 2001