The Cold War By calejandre May 26, 1938 H.U.A.C. Feb 11, 1945 YALTA Conference Mar 5, 1946 Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 26, 1948 Berlin Aircraft Aug 3, 1948 Alger Hiss Jan 1, 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviets Detonation of the Atomic Bomb Mar 29, 1950 McCarthyism/ Red Scare Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Sep 23, 1950 McCarran Mar 6, 1951 Rosenberg Spy Case Begins Nov 1, 1952 H Bomb Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Mar 17, 1953 Arm's Race Aug 4, 1953 Domino Theory Jan 12, 1954 Massive Retaliation Mar 13, 1954 Dien Bien Phu Jun 18, 1954 Guatemalan Coup May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Feb 24, 1956 Khrushchev’s Secret Speech Dec 1, 1956 Vietnam War Jan 1, 1957 Space Race Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro Jan 1, 1960 Neutron Bomb May 1, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Affair Aug 22, 1960 U.S.S. Scorpion Apr 17, 1961 Bay Of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 27, 1962 The B-59 Submarine Incident Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Aug 30, 1963 Hotline Aug 10, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Oct 14, 1964 Leonid Brezhnev Sep 30, 1965 Indonesian Coup Jan 1, 1967 Trsscomm Jun 5, 1967 Six Day War Jun 8, 1967 U.S.S. Liberty Jan 31, 1968 Tet Offensive Aug 20, 1968 Prague Spring Revolution Nov 13, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine Nov 3, 1969 Vietnamization Nov 17, 1969 SALT Dec 1, 1969 Détente Apr 17, 1975 Cambodia and Khmer Rouge Aug 1, 1975 Helsinki Accords Nov 9, 1979 NORAD Computer Glitch Dec 24, 1979 Afghanistan War Jul 25, 1980 M.A.D Aug 31, 1980 Solidarity Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan Mar 23, 1983 SDI Nov 7, 1983 Able Archer 83 Exercise May 1, 1985 John Walker Jan 1, 1986 Perestroika Jan 1, 1986 Glasnost Dec 8, 1987 INF Treaty Mar 15, 1990 Gorbachev Oct 3, 1990 German Reunification