Cold War Illustrated Timeline

Chinese Civil War

Period: 1944 to 1947

Communist Takeover of China

1945

Eastern European Governments Set Up Under Soviets

Period: 1945 to 1948

Bulgaria (1945), Romania, Poland, and Hungary (1947), and Czechoslovakia (1948)

Containment Policy

1946

Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

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Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Berlin Airlift

Period: 1948 to 1949

Marshall Plan

Jun 3, 1948

Soviet Union Has Bomb

1949

arms race begins

China's Previous Nationalist Leader Chiang flees to Taiwan

1949

Korean War

Period: 1949 to 1975

NATO Established

Apr 4, 1949

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McCarthy Hearings

Period: 1950 to 1954

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg Executed for Espionage

1953

US Sponsors Overthrow of Iranian Government

1953

US Sponsors Overthrow of Guatemalan Government

1954

Warsaw Pact

1955

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Soviets Launch Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

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First SUCCESSFUL Launch of Satellite by USA

Jan 31, 1958

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Fidel Castro Topples Cuban Dictator

Jul 26, 1959

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Berlin Wall Constructed

1961

Eisenhauer Cuts off Diplomatic Relationship with Cuba

Jan 3, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

Operation Rolling Thunder

1965

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American Involvement in Vietnam War

Period: Mar 1, 1965 to Jan 27, 1973

Tet Offensive

Jan 30, 1968

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SALT I Signed

1972

Nixon Visits China

Feb 21, 1972

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Fall of Saigon

Apr 30, 1975

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SALT II Signed

1979

Shah of Iran Overthrown; Hostages Seized

Nov 4, 1979

Hostages Released by Rebels

Jan 20, 1981

Gorbachev Elected Secretary General of Soviet Union; Enacts Glasnost and Perestroika

Mar 11, 1985

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INF Treaty Signed

Dec 8, 1987

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

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East and West Berlin United

Oct 3, 1990

14 Non-Russian Republics Declared Independence from the Soviet Union

Jan 1, 1991

George Bush and Boris Yeltsin Issue a Formal Statement Declaring the end of the Cold War

Feb 2, 1992

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