Vietnam and Cold war Timeline By Soccerplayer24 1947 Cold War: Molotov Plan Mar 12, 1947 Cold War: Truman Doctrine Feb 21, 1948 Cold War: Czechoslovakian Coup Jun 23, 1948 Cold War: Berlin Blockade Apr 4, 1949 Cold War: NATO Aug 29, 1949 Cold War: First Soviet Nuclear Test Oct 1, 1949 Cold War: Chinese Revolution 1950 Cold War: McCarran Act Period: 1950 to 1954 Cold War: McCarthyism Period: 1950 to 1960 Cold War: Peaceful Coexistance Feb 14, 1950 Cold War: Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Apr 7, 1950 Cold War: NSC 68 Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Cold War: Start/Armistice of Korean War Sep 8, 1951 Cold War:Treaty of San Francisco Jun 19, 1952 Vietnam: Formation of Green Berets 1953 Cold War: Eisenhower's New Look Mar 5, 1953 Cold War: Death of Stalin Jul 20, 1953 Cold War: Geneva Accords Period: Jul 26, 1953 to Jan 1, 1959 Cold War: Start/End of Cuban Revolution Sep 12, 1953 Cold War: Khruschev Comes to Power Period: Mar 9, 1954 to Jan 29, 1955 Cold War: Taiwan Straight Crisis/Formosa Resolution Apr 7, 1954 Vietnam: Eisenhower Theory Domino Speech Jul 7, 1954 Cold War: Eisenhower Roll Back Campaign (NSC 174) Sep 8, 1954 Cold War: Formation of SEATO Apr 18, 1955 Cold War: Bandung Conference May 14, 1955 Cold War: Warsaw Pact Jul 17, 1955 Cold War: Geneva Summit Feb 25, 1956 Cold War: Khruschev's Destalinization Speech Oct 23, 1956 Cold War: Hungarian Revolution Oct 29, 1956 Cold War: Suez Crisis Aug 21, 1957 Cold War: Russians Complete Test ICBM Oct 4, 1957 Cold War: Launch of Sputnik Jul 29, 1958 Cold War: Formation of NASA Jul 8, 1959 Vietnam: First US Soldiers Killed in Vietnam Sep 15, 1959 Cold war: Khruschev and Eisenhower Camp David Talks May 1, 1960 Cold War: U2 Incident with Gary Powers Jan 20, 1961 Cold War: Kennedy Takes Office Apr 17, 1961 Cold War: Bay of Pigs Period: Oct 17, 1961 to May 18, 1989 Cold War: Soviet and China Split Period: Jan 12, 1962 to 1971 Vietnam: Operation Ranch Hand Oct 16, 1962 Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1963 to 1963 Vietnam: Buddhist Crisis Nov 2, 1963 Vietnam: Assasination of Diem Nov 22, 1963 Cold War: Assassination of Kennedy Aug 2, 1964 Vietnam: Gulf of Tonkin incident 1965 Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Replaced Jan 20, 1965 Cold War: Inauguration of Johnson Feb 7, 1965 Vietnam: Operation Flaming Dart Mar 2, 1965 Vietnam: Beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder Nov 2, 1965 Vietnam: Norman Morrison self-immolation incident Nov 14, 1965 Vietnam: Battle of La Drang Valley Period: 1966 to 1971 Vietnam: Fulbright Hearings 1967 Vietnam Protests 1967 Sep 3, 1967 Vietnam: Election of Thieu Jan 30, 1968 Vietnam: Tet Offensive Mar 16, 1968 Vietnam: My Lai Massacre May 10, 1968 Vietnam: Formation of Kissinger Paris Peace Negotiations Period: 1969 to 1973 Vietnam: Vietnamization Period: 1969 to 1979 Cold War: Detente Jan 20, 1969 Cold War: Inauguration of Nixon May 10, 1969 Vietnam: Battle of Hamburger Hill Dec 1, 1969 Vietnam: Draft Lottery starts May 4, 1970 Vietnam: Kent State Massacre Jun 13, 1971 Vietnam: Pentagon Papers Released Feb 21, 1972 Cold War: Nixon visits China May 9, 1972 Vietnam: Operation Linebacker May 26, 1972 Cold War: SALT I Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam: Fall of Saigon