The Cold War By Elizabeth182 Period: Nov 11, 1904 to Nov 15, 1996 Alger Hiss Period: Dec 19, 1906 to Nov 10, 1982 Lenoid Brezhnev Period: Aug 13, 1926 to Feb 10, 2014 Fidel Castro Mar 2, 1931 Gorbachev Jul 28, 1937 John Walker Jan 1, 1938 House Un-American Activities Committee Jan 1, 1945 Massive Retaliation Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Period: Jan 1, 1946 to Jan 1, 1950 Chinese Communist Revolution Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Period: Jan 1, 1947 to Jan 1, 1954 McCarthyism/Red Scare Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 Berlin Airlift Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviets Detonation of the Atomic Bomb Jan 1, 1950 Arm's Race Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1980 Domino Theory Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Sep 23, 1950 McCarran International Security Act Mar 6, 1951 Rosenberg Spy Case Nov 1, 1952 H Bomb Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Jan 1, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Period: Jan 1, 1954 to Jan 1, 1975 Vietnam War Period: Jun 18, 1954 to Jun 27, 1954 Guatemalan Coup Jan 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact Feb 1, 1956 Kruschev's Secret Speech Period: Jun 5, 1957 to Jun 10, 1957 Six Day War Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Period: Oct 4, 1957 to Jan 1, 1972 Space Race Jan 1, 1958 Detente May 1, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Affair Aug 22, 1960 U.S.S. Scorpion Jan 1, 1961 Berlin Wall Period: Apr 17, 1961 to Apr 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs Jan 1, 1962 Mutually Assured Destruction Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Oct 27, 1962 The B-59 Submarine Incident Jan 1, 1963 Hotline Jan 1, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jan 1, 1965 Indonesian Coup Jan 1, 1967 Trssomm Jun 8, 1967 U.S.S. Liberty Jan 21, 1968 Tet Offensive Aug 20, 1968 Prague Spring Rebellion Nov 1, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine Jan 1, 1969 Strategic Arms Limitations Task Jan 1, 1973 Vietnamization Period: Jan 1, 1975 to Jan 1, 1979 Cambodia and Khmer Rouge Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Period: Jan 1, 1979 to Jan 1, 1989 Afghanistan War Nov 9, 1979 Norad Computer Glitch Jan 1, 1980 Perestroika Jan 1, 1980 Glasnost Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Jan 1, 1989 Solidarity Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 20, 1989 Ronald Reagan Mar 1, 1983 SDI Period: Nov 7, 1983 to Nov 11, 1983 Able Archer 83 Exercise Jan 1, 1987 INF Treaty Jan 1, 1990 German Unification Jan 1, 1990 Neutron Bomb