Key Events of the Cold War By Lanetech1 Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Mar 5, 1953 Stalin Dies Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War May 15, 1955 Warsaw Pact Created Oct 23, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Oct 30, 1956 Suez Canal Crisis Apr 12, 1961 Russia is the First in Space Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 13, 1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy Assasinated Aug 15, 1968 USSR Invades Czechoslovakia Jul 20, 1969 Americans send the first man to the Moon May 26, 1972 Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty Signed Period: 1979 to 1989 Soviet-Afghan War Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Meltdown Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Oct 3, 1990 East and West Germany Unite Dec 25, 1991 Collapse of the USSR
