Cold War Timeline By kyled54 May 26, 1938 H.U.A.C. Jul 1, 1944 Bretton Woods Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Feb 11, 1945 Satellite Nations Jan 1, 1946 Baby Boom Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Feb 17, 1947 "Voice of America" Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 26, 1948 Berlin Airlift Jan 5, 1949 "Fair Deal" Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviet detonation of the atomic bomb Aug 29, 1949 Arms Race Oct 1, 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution Jan 21, 1950 Alger Hiss Feb 1, 1950 McCarthyism/Red Scare Apr 14, 1950 NSC-68 Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Apr 5, 1951 Rosenberg Spy Case Jun 4, 1951 Dennis vs. US Nov 1, 1952 H Bomb Dec 24, 1952 McCarran Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Jan 12, 1954 Massive Retaliation Mar 13, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Apr 7, 1954 Domino Theory Jun 18, 1954 Guatemalan Coup May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Feb 25, 1956 Khrushchev's Secret Speech Jun 29, 1956 Interstate Highway Act of 1956 Oct 4, 1957 Space Race Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Sep 2, 1958 NDEA Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 Affair May 7, 1960 Leonid Brezhnev Jan 1, 1961 M.A.D.- Mutually Assured Destruction mid 1960s Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Dec 15, 1961 TRSSCOMM Jan 1, 1962 Neutron Bomb Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Feb 19, 1963 The Feminine Mystique Jun 20, 1963 Hotline Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Oct 1, 1965 Indonesian Coup Aug 18, 1966 Chinese Cultural Revolution Jun 5, 1967 Six Day War Jun 8, 1967 U.S.S. Liberty Jan 31, 1968 Tet Offensive May 22, 1968 U.S.S. Scorpion Aug 20, 1968 Prague Spring Rebellion Nov 3, 1969 Vietnamization May 22, 1972 Detene May 26, 1972 SALT I Jun 23, 1972 Title IX Aug 9, 1974 First Unelected President Apr 17, 1975 Cambodia and Khmer Rouge Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Jun 18, 1979 SALT II Dec 25, 1979 Soviet-Afghan War Sep 17, 1980 Solidarity Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan Mar 23, 1983 SDI (Star Wars) Mar 11, 1985 Gorbachev Mar 11, 1985 Glasnost Mar 11, 1985 Perestroika May 20, 1985 John Walker Dec 8, 1987 INF Treaty Oct 3, 1990 German Reunification