The Cold War By EricaLundy Oct 14, 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower Birth https://darkmattersalot.com/2014/10/29/military-industrial-complex-speech-dwight-d-eisenhower-1961/ Period: Oct 14, 1890 to Mar 23, 1983 The Cold War Timeline Aug 27, 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson Birth Feb 6, 1911 Ronald Reagan Birth http://futurefemaleleader.com/7-reasons-why-we-miss-ronald-reagan/ Jan 9, 1913 Richard Nixon Birth http://www.biography.com/people/richard-nixon-9424076 Jul 14, 1913 Gerald Ford Birth http://www.myinterestingfacts.com/gerald-ford-facts/ May 29, 1917 John F. Kennedy Birth https://www.immigrationdirect.com/blog/2013/11/in-remembrance-of-john-f-kennedy/ Jun 12, 1924 George Bush Sr. Birth https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/georgehwbush Oct 1, 1924 Jimmy Carter Birth http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-carter-9240013 Apr 1, 1927 China's Civil War http://stimulatedboredom.com/historical/the-making-of-red-china-a-historiographical-analysis-of-the-chinese-civil-war/attachment/china_civil_war/ Aug 13, 1929 Francis Gary Powers http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/09/us/silver-star-award/ Feb 1, 1931 Boris Yeltsin Birth https://quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/boris-yeltsin-remembered/ Sep 2, 1945 WW1 Ended http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs9bwmn Oct 24, 1945 United Nations Mar 5, 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 USSR's First Atomic Bomb Test Apr 25, 1950 Korean War Jun 25, 1950 The End Of The Korean War Nov 1, 1952 H-Bomb Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Sep 8, 1954 SEATO May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Jan 5, 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Jan 1, 1959 Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba Apr 17, 1961 Bay Of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK Death Jul 20, 1969 NASA's First Moon Landing http://home.scarlet.be/~mb977459/nasa__zippo.htm May 26, 1972 SALT Treaty http://hornerhistory.weebly.com/the-washington-naval-conference-1921.html May 26, 1972 SALT Treaty http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/photos/1354/ Dec 1, 1979 Soviets Invade Afghanistan https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan Feb 22, 1980 Miracle On Ice http://www.foxsports.com/olympics/story/1980-us-olympic-hockey-miracle-on-ice-team-35th-anniversary-012215 Mar 23, 1983 STAR WARS http://o0starrieskye0o.deviantart.com/art/Strategic-Defense-Initiative-Political-Cartoon-395038027 Jan 14, 1984 U.S. Boycott Of The Summer Olympics http://adst.org/2014/02/moscow-gets-torched-the-boycott-of-the-1980-summer-games/ May 15, 1988 Soviets Leave Afghanistan http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/us-war-in-afghanistan-has-echoes-of-soviet-experience.html?_r=0 Jan 1, 1989 Tiananmen Square http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/qa-stuart-franklins-view-on-tiananmen-square/ Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2014/11/25-years-ago-the-berlin-wall-fell-why-did-it-fall.html Jan 1, 1990 Gorbachev Came To Power http://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev Dec 25, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union
