The Cold War By ace.ross Jan 1, 1945 WWII Ended Period: Jan 17, 1945 to May 17, 1991 Cold War Mar 5, 1945 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Oct 14, 1945 Untied Nations Feb 18, 1947 Truman Doctrine Mar 17, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 17, 1948 Marshall Plan Apr 5, 1949 Nato Aug 19, 1949 USSA's first atomic Bomb test May 17, 1950 China Civil War Jul 29, 1950 Korean War Feb 19, 1952 H-Bomb Jan 16, 1953 Dwight D. Eisengower Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Jul 17, 1953 End of the Korean War Sep 23, 1954 SEATO Apr 17, 1955 Warsaw Pact Apr 17, 1955 Vietnam War Jan 4, 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine Oct 5, 1957 Sputnik Apr 17, 1959 When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba Apr 17, 1960 Francis Gary Powers Apr 17, 1960 JFK Apr 17, 1961 Bay of pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK Shot an Killed Nov 22, 1963 Lyndon Johnson Apr 17, 1969 Richard NIxon Jul 20, 1969 NASA's first moon Landing Apr 17, 1974 Gernald Ford Apr 17, 1977 Jimmy Carter Apr 17, 1980 Miracle On Ice Apr 17, 1981 Ronald Reagan Jan 1, 1985 Gorbachev came to Power Jul 19, 1988 Geogre Bush Apr 17, 1989 BerlinWalls Falls Sep 20, 1989 Soviets left Afghanistan Sep 29, 1989 tiananmen Square Apr 17, 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union- Boris yeltsin