Cold War Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Jan 1, 1941 to May 17, 2013

The Policy of Containment
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine
Period: Apr 2, 1948 to Jan 1, 1951

Marshall Plan
Period: Jan 1, 1949 to Jun 28, 1991

Comecon
Apr 4, 1949

NATO Formed
May 12, 1949

Berlin Airlift Ends Blockade of West Berlin
May 23, 1949

CREATION OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (WEST GERMANY)
Aug 29, 1949

Soviet Union Tests Their First Atomic Bomb
Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Korean War
Mar 5, 1953

Stalin's Death
Oct 4, 1957

SOVIETS LAUNCH SPUTNIK I INTO SPACE
Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall Erected
Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
Aug 2, 1964

Johnson Escalates Troop Numbers to Start Vietnam War
Aug 7, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Period: Dec 24, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Nov 9, 1989

Berlin Wall Torn Down