Cold War Timeline

ussr stalin

Period: Nov 19, 1924 to Nov 19, 1953

President Truman

Period: Nov 19, 1945 to Nov 19, 1953

church hill warns of iron curtain

Mar 15, 1946

cold war

Period: Nov 18, 1946 to Nov 18, 1991

second red scare/ McCarthyism

Period: Nov 19, 1947 to Nov 19, 1954

Berlin blockade

Nov 19, 1948

rosenberg/ sobell trial

Period: Nov 19, 1950 to Nov 19, 1953

korean war

Period: Nov 19, 1950 to Nov 19, 1953

president eisenhower

Period: Nov 19, 1953 to Nov 19, 1961

vietnam

Period: Nov 19, 1954 to Nov 19, 1975

ussr khrushchev

Period: Nov 19, 1955 to Nov 19, 1964

space race

Period: Nov 19, 1959 to Nov 19, 1975

bay of pigs

Nov 19, 1961

cuban missile crisis

Nov 19, 1961

president kennedy

Period: Nov 19, 1961 to Nov 19, 1963

berlin wall

Period: Nov 19, 1961 to Nov 19, 1989

president johnson

Period: Nov 19, 1963 to Nov 19, 1969

Brezhnev

Period: Nov 19, 1964 to Nov 19, 1982

Detente

Nov 19, 1969

president nixon

Period: Nov 19, 1969 to Nov 19, 1974

president ford

Period: Nov 19, 1974 to Nov 19, 1977

president carter

Period: Nov 19, 1977 to Nov 19, 1981

president reagan

Period: Nov 19, 1981 to Nov 19, 1989

USSR gorbachev

Period: Nov 19, 1985 to Nov 19, 1991

USSR falls apart

Nov 19, 1991