Cold War Timeline

Arms Race

Jun 19, 1914

Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1916

Ends Nov 9, 1989

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Goes until the 11th

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Marshall plan

Apr 19, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Jun 18, 1948

Berlin Blockade

Jun 24, 1948

Ends May 12, 1949

Korean War

Jun 24, 1950

Ends June 27, 1953

Joseph Stalin Dies

Mar 5, 1953

Nakita Krushchev took control.

Space Race

Aug 2, 1955

Vietnam war

Dec 19, 1956

U-2 Incident

May 1, 1960

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 19, 1962

Nakita Khrushchev

Sep 11, 1971

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Dec 19, 1979

Ends Feb. 1989

INF Treaty

Mar 8, 1987

Mikhail Garbachev

May 19, 1990

1991

German Reunification

Oct 3, 1990

USSR Breakup

Dec 26, 1991