Cold war timeline Project By tristin55 Nov 22, 1929 salt Mar 31, 1940 China's civil war Sep 2, 1945 When did WWII end? Period: Sep 2, 1945 to Apr 14, 1991 wwII ended Oct 24, 1945 United Nations Mar 5, 1946 Churchhill's Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman doctrine Jun 5, 1947 marshall plan Apr 1, 1948 Berlin Airlift It started on april 1st 1948 and ended on may 12 1949 Apr 1, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 USSR's first atomic bomb test Jun 25, 1950 Korean war Nov 1, 1952 H-Bomb Jan 20, 1953 Dwight D. Esenhower Mar 5, 1953 Stalins death Jul 27, 1953 End of the korean war Mar 8, 1954 SEATO Apr 17, 1955 Mutally assured Destruction/MAD plan May 14, 1955 Warsaw pact Jan 5, 1957 Eisenhower doctrane Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Nov 19, 1959 When did fidel astro take over cuba? May 1, 1960 Francis gray powers Jan 20, 1961 John F kennedy Apr 17, 1961 Bay of pigs Apr 18, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 LYndon Johnson Nov 27, 1963 When was JFk killed Apr 22, 1965 Gerald Ford Jul 20, 1968 First moon landing Jan 22, 1969 richord nixon Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy carter Dec 24, 1979 Soviets invade afghanistan Jan 20, 1980 u.s boycott of the summer olypics Feb 22, 1980 Miracle on ice Mar 1, 1981 Ronald reagen Mar 23, 1983 Star wars straegic defense initaivive Jul 1, 1985 When did Gorbachev come to power Feb 15, 1989 When did Soviets leave Afghanish Apr 15, 1989 Tiananamen square Jun 25, 1991 boris yeltsin