Timeline: Cold War Illustrated Timeline

Period: 1944 to 1947

Chinese Civil War

1945

Communist Takeover of China

Period: 1945 to 1948

Eastern European Governments Set Up Under Soviets

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

1946

Containment Policy

Mar 5, 1946

Iron Curtain Speech

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Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine

Period: 1948 to 1949

Berlin Airlift

Jun 3, 1948

Marshall Plan

1949

Soviet Union Has Bomb

arms race begins

1949

China's Previous Nationalist Leader Chiang flees to Taiwan

Period: 1949 to 1975

Korean War

Apr 4, 1949

NATO Established

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Period: 1950 to 1954

McCarthy Hearings

1953

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg Executed for Espionage

1953

US Sponsors Overthrow of Iranian Government

1954

US Sponsors Overthrow of Guatemalan Government

1955

Warsaw Pact

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Oct 4, 1957

Soviets Launch Sputnik

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Jan 31, 1958

First SUCCESSFUL Launch of Satellite by USA

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Jul 26, 1959

Fidel Castro Topples Cuban Dictator

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1961

Berlin Wall Constructed

Jan 3, 1961

Eisenhauer Cuts off Diplomatic Relationship with Cuba

Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Aug 7, 1964

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

1965

Operation Rolling Thunder

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Period: Mar 1, 1965 to Jan 27, 1973

American Involvement in Vietnam War

Jan 30, 1968

Tet Offensive

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1972

SALT I Signed

Feb 21, 1972

Nixon Visits China

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Apr 30, 1975

Fall of Saigon

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1979

SALT II Signed

Nov 4, 1979

Shah of Iran Overthrown; Hostages Seized

Jan 20, 1981

Hostages Released by Rebels

Mar 11, 1985

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

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Dec 8, 1987

INF Treaty Signed

Nov 9, 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Oct 3, 1990

East and West Berlin United

Jan 1, 1991

14 Non-Russian Republics Declared Independence from the Soviet Union

Feb 2, 1992

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

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