Cold War Timeline By allegrapicano Jan 1, 1945 Policy of Containment Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan Jan 1, 1949 Comecon Jan 1, 1949 Creation of West Germany Apr 4, 1949 NATO Formed May 12, 1949 Berlin Airlift Ends Blockade of West Berlin May 21, 1949 Communists defeat Naionalists in China Aug 29, 1949 Soviet's test First Atomic Bomb Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Oct 4, 1957 Soviet's Launch Sputnik into Space Aug 15, 1961 Berlin Wall Erected Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Jan 1, 1963 Guerilla Warfare Jun 1, 1964 Johnson esclates troop numbers to start Vietnam War Jan 23, 1973 Nixon Signs Agreement withdraw from Vietnam Dec 1, 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Torn Down