Cold War Events timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

Yalta Conference
Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945

Potsdam Conference
Aug 6, 1945

Nagasaki Bombing
Aug 9, 1945

Hiroshima Bombing
1947

Molotov Plan
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine
Mar 17, 1948

Brussels Treaty
Apr 3, 1948

Marshall Plan
Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949

Berlin Blockade
Apr 4, 1949

NATO
Aug 29, 1949

Soviet Creation of Nuclear Weapons
Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Korean War
Mar 5, 1953

Stalin's Death
Period: May 14, 1955 to Jul 1, 1991

Warsaw Pact
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Vietnam War
Period: Oct 23, 1956 to Nov 10, 1956

Hungarian Revolution
May 12, 1958

NORAD
Jan 1, 1959

Fidel Castro Takeover
Apr 17, 1961

Bay of Pigs
Aug 13, 1961

Creation of the Berlin Wall
Oct 28, 1962

End of Cuban Missile Crisis
Jul 1, 1968

Nuclear Arms Treaties
Period: Dec 25, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989

Afghanistan/Soviet War
Period: 1980 to 1989

Solidarity in Poland
1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Period: Nov 17, 1989 to Dec 29, 1989

Czechoslovakia Revolution
1991

End of the Cold War