The Cold War Timeline Project By Gabriel Roades Oct 14, 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower Aug 27, 1908 Lyndon Johnson Jan 9, 1913 Richard Nixon Jul 14, 1913 Gerald Ford Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy Oct 1, 1924 Jimmy Carter Apr 14, 1927 China's Civil War Aug 17, 1929 Francis Gary Powers Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII Oct 24, 1945 United Nations Mar 5, 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 3, 1949 Marshall Plan Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 USSR first atomic bomb test Apr 14, 1950 Mutually Assured Destruction/ MAD Plan Jun 25, 1950 End of Korean War Jun 27, 1950 Korean War Nov 14, 1952 The H-Bomb Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Sep 8, 1954 SEATO May 14, 1955 WARSAW Pact Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Jan 5, 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Apr 20, 1959 Fidel Castro toke over Cuba Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK shot and killed Jul 20, 1969 NASA's first moon landing May 26, 1972 SALT Dec 20, 1979 Soviets invade Afghanistan Feb 22, 1980 Mircale on ice Apr 20, 1984 U.S. boycott of the summer oplymipcs