The Cold War

United States of America

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1995

The Soviet Union

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1995

Truman

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1952

Stalin

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1952

The Korean War

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1953

Eisenhower

Period: Jan 1, 1952 to Jan 1, 1960

Khrushchev

Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Dec 31, 1963

The Hungarian Uprising

Jan 1, 1956

Kennedy

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1962

Berlin Wall built

Jan 1, 1961

The Cuban missile crisis

Oct 1, 1962

Johnson

Period: Jan 1, 1963 to May 15, 1968

American military involvement in Vietnam

Period: Sep 30, 1963 to Oct 1, 1972

Brezhnev

Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1981

The Prague Spring: Czechoslovakia

Jan 1, 1968

Nixon

Period: May 16, 1968 to Oct 15, 1974

Ford

Period: Oct 16, 1974 to Oct 15, 1976

Carter

Period: Oct 16, 1976 to Jan 31, 1980

Solidarity in Poland

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 1981

Reagan

Period: Feb 1, 1980 to May 31, 1988

Andropov

Period: Jan 1, 1982 to Dec 31, 1983

Chernenko

Period: Jan 1, 1984 to Sep 30, 1985

Gorbachev

Period: Oct 1, 1985 to Dec 31, 1990

Bush

Period: Jun 1, 1988 to Feb 1, 1992

Collapse of Communism in eastern Europe

Jan 1, 1989

Collapse of Soviet Union

Jan 1, 1991

Clinton

Period: Feb 2, 1992 to Dec 31, 2001