The Cold War (1945-1991)

By AlexCalv
  • Period: to

    1940s

  • Poland Becomes Communist

  • Yalta Conference

  • Germany Surrenders to Allies WW2

  • Potsdam Conference

  • US Drops Atomic Bombs on Japan

  • Japan Surrenders to Allies WW2

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO Organized

  • Berlin blockade by USSR and US airlift

  • Period: to

    1950s

  • McCarthyism

  • Korean War Begins

  • US Involvement in Vietnam

  • Dwight Eisenhower elected for POTUS

  • Joseph Stalin Dies

  • Rosenberg Spy Execution

  • Korean War Ends

  • Nikita Khrushchev elected as Soviet Leader

  • Vietnam Splits at 17th Parallel

  • SEATO Created

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

  • USSR Sputnik in Orbit

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon - Kitchen Debate

  • Period: to

    1960s

  • US U2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia

  • Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of USSR

  • John F. Kennedy Elected as POTUS

  • USSR Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin, Germany Border Closed

  • Berlin Wall Construction

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" JFK Speech

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident (Start of Vietnam War)

  • Tet Offensive in Vietnam

  • Richard M. Nixon Elected as POTUS

  • US Puts First Man On Moon

  • Period: to

    1970s

  • Richard Nixon Visits China

  • Ceasefire in Vietnam

  • Richard Nixon Resigns/Gerald Ford Becomes POTUS

  • End of Vietnam War

  • Jimmy Carter Elected as POTUS

  • Cardinal Karol Wojtyla Elected as Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • USSR Invades Afghanistan

  • Period: to

    1980s

  • US Boycotts 1980 Summer Olympics

  • Ronald W. Reagan Elected as POTUS

  • Leonid Brezhnev Dies

  • Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Leader of Soviet Union

  • Ronald Reagan Delivers Berlin Wall Speech

  • Poland Becomes Independent

  • George H.W. Bush Elected as POTUS

  • Tiananmen Square in China

  • Russian Troops Withdraw from Afghanistan

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • Period: to

    1990s

  • East and West Germany Reunite

  • Warsaw Pact Ends

  • Boris Yeltsin Elected as President of Russia

  • Soviet Union Dissolves / Cold War Ends

  • Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns