cold war event timeline

  • red china

  • North Korea and South korea

  • sputnik

  • H-Bomb

  • little rock

  • Birth control

  • bay of pigs invasion

  • JFK assasination

  • Watergate

    A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.
  • Richard nixon re-election