Cold War

H.U.A.C

Mar 12, 1938

M.A.D.

Jan 1, 1945

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

Marshall Plan

Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

McCarthyism/Red Scare 1947

Mar 12, 1947

Alger Hiss

Mar 12, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Jun 27, 1948

Arms Race

Mar 11, 1949

NATO

Apr 4, 1949

Soviets Detonation of the Atomic Bomb

Aug 29, 1949

H Bomb

Sep 23, 1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

Oct 1, 1949

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

Rosenberg Spy Case

Mar 6, 1951

McCarran

Sep 23, 1952

Stalin’s death

Mar 5, 1953

Domino Theory

Aug 4, 1953

Massive Retaliation

Jan 12, 1954

Dien Bien Phu

May 7, 1954

Guatemalan Coup

Jun 18, 1954

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

Vietnam War

Nov 1, 1955

Khrushchev's secret speech

Feb 25, 1956

Space Race

Aug 21, 1957

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

Neutron Bomb

Mar 12, 1958

Fidel Castro

Mar 1, 1959

Trsscomm

Mar 12, 1960

U-2 spy plane affair

May 1, 1960

Leonid Brezhnev

May 11, 1960

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Aug 5, 1963

Hotline

Aug 30, 1963

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

Indonesian Coup

Mar 12, 1966

Six Day War

Jun 5, 1967

U.S.S Liberty

Jun 8, 1967

Tet Offensive

Jan 30, 1968

U.S.S Scorpion

Jun 5, 1968

Prague Spring Rebellion

Aug 21, 1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

Nov 13, 1968

Vietnamization

Nov 3, 1969

Détente

Jan 1, 1970

SALT

May 26, 1972

Cambodia and Khmer Rouge

Apr 17, 1975

Helsinki Accords

Aug 1, 1975

Afghanistan War

Dec 11, 1979

Solidarity

Aug 31, 1980

Ronald Reagan

Jan 20, 1981

SDI (Star Wars)

Mar 23, 1983

Perestroika

Mar 11, 1985

Glasnost

Mar 11, 1985

John Walker

Mar 12, 1985

INF Treaty

Dec 8, 1987

Gorbachev

Mar 11, 1989

German reunification

Oct 3, 1990