Cold War Timeline By reeves_nikki Jan 1, 1857 Salt March Oct 2, 1869 Mahatma Gandi Nov 30, 1874 Winston Churchill Dec 18, 1878 Josef Stalin May 8, 1884 Harry Truman Nov 14, 1889 Jawaharlal Nehru May 19, 1890 Ho Chi Minh Oct 14, 1890 Dwight Eisenhower Oct 20, 1893 Jomo Kenyatta Dec 26, 1893 Mao Zedong May 3, 1898 Golda Meir Aug 22, 1904 Deng Xiaoping Nov 19, 1917 Indira Gandi Jan 15, 1918 Gamal Abdul Nasser Jul 18, 1918 Nelson Mandela Oct 13, 1925 Margaret Thatcher Mar 2, 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev Oct 1, 1933 Long March Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Aug 15, 1947 Indian Independence Mov't Jan 1, 1948 Creation of Nation Israel Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Jan 1, 1954 Algeria Independence Jan 1, 1956 Anti-Apartheid Mov't Jan 1, 1957 Ghana Independence Jan 1, 1958 Great Leap Forward Jan 1, 1959 Vietnam Conflict Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Jan 1, 1963 Kenya Independence Jan 1, 1965 Cultural Revolution