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China's Civil War
On August 1st, 1927, a conflict between Nationalists and Communists broke out and did not end until 1950. -
The End of WWII
On September 2nd,1945 the Japanese surrenders on the U.S. Missouri. -
Form of United Nations
October 24, 1945 the United Nations formed. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
On March 5th, 1946 Winston Churchill gave his Iron Curtain Speech. -
Truman Doctrine
On March 12,1947 President Truman had a message known as the "Truman Doctrine" asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan
On April 3rd, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Act and later it became known as The Marshall Plan. -
Berlin Airlift
On June 26th, 1948, the U,S, begins a massive airlift of food, water and medicines into West Berlin. -
NATO
On April 4th, 1949, NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was signed in Washington D.C, -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb Test
On August 29th, 1949, the Soviet Union explodes their first atomic bomb. -
Korean War
On June 25th, 1950, North Korea invade South Korea. -
H-Bomb
On November 1st, 1952, the United States conducted its first nuclear test of a fusion device. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was elected president November 4th, 1952. -
Mutually Assured Destruction/MAD Plan
A U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. -
Stalin's Death
On March 5th,1953 Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin died. -
End of Korean War
July 27th, 1953, the United Nations, China and North Korea signed an Armistice. -
SEATO
On September 8th, 1954, Southeast Aisa Treaty Organization signed at Manila by represenatatives of Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Warsaw Pact
West Germany formed NATO on May 5th,1955 but two weeks later on May 14th, the Warsaw Pact was signed. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War happened because the U.S. told citizens that they were fighting because of the Communist North Korea and the Non-Communist South Korea, while the Vietnamese people were fighting for freedom. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
January 5th, 1957, President Eisenhower pronouncement promised military or economic aid to any MIddle Eastern country. -
Francis Gary Powers
An American Pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace. -
Sputnik
On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first artificial satellite, which was the size of a beach ball. -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
On July 26th, 1959, Castro came to power in Cuba but in 1976 Castro became president of Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy
On Novermber 8th, 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs is a failed military invasion of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
On August 13th, 1961, the Berlin Wall was built by Communist East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
JFK shot & killed
In Dallas, Texas on November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade. -
Lyndon Johnson
Less than a year earlier, he had became president after JFK's assassination, but on November 3rd, 1964 he became the president. -
Richard Nixon
On January 20th, 1969 Richard Nixon was elected president, he was in office until 1974 when he resigned, which to this day, he is still the only president to resign. -
NASA's first moon landing
Apollo 11 is the first spaceflight to land humans on the moon -
SALT
In Moscow, President Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty & SALT agreement. the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Gerald Ford
American politician Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States until 1977. -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter was an American politician and author, he was the 39th president, but in 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Between 850,000–1.5 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. -
Miracle On Ice
American popular culture for a medal round men's ice hockey during 1980 Winter Olympics. -
U.S. boycott of summer olympics
On March 21st, 1980,President Carter announced that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. -
Ronald Reagan
40th President, Ronald Reagan who was also an actor, was elected January 20th, 1981 and stayed in office until January 20th, 1989. -
STAR WARS: Strategic Defense Initiative
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Gorbachev comes to power
In 1985, Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, continuing to become president in 1990. -
Boris Yeltsin
On December 23rd, 1985, Boris Yeltsin was the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party. 1990, he became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. And on July 10th, 1991, he became the 1st President of Russia. -
Soviets leave Afghanistan
From May 15th, 1988 the Soviet troops start to leave Afghanistan, and continued to February 2, 1989, and then February 15th, 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all troops were out of Afghanistan. -
George Bush (Senior)
On January 20th, 1989, George Hebert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st President of the United States. -
Tiananmen Square
The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks killed unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which students and other demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks. -
Berlin Wall Falls
November 09th, 1989, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
In early December, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine broke away from the USSR, and created the Commonwealth of Independent States. Weeks later, they were followed by eight of the nine remaining republics. (Georgia joined two years later.) At last, the Soviet Union had fallen.
