Cold War Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

Yalta Conference
Period: Jul 16, 1945 to 1987

Arms Race
Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945

Potsdam Conference
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine
Jun 5, 1947

Marshall Plan
Period: Apr 1, 1948 to May 12, 1949

Berlin Airlift
Period: Jun 24, 1948 to 1949

Berlin Blockade
Apr 4, 1949

NATO formed
Feb 9, 1950

Red Scare (McCarthyism)
Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Korean War
Period: May 14, 1955 to Jul 1, 1991

Warsaw Pact
Oct 4, 1957

Launch of Sputnik
Period: Nov 1, 1957 to 1975

Space Race
May 1, 1960

U-2 Spy Incident
Apr 17, 1961

Bay of Pigs
Aug 13, 1961

Rise of Berlin Wall
Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
Period: 1965 to Aug 15, 1973

Vietnam War
Period: Jul 16, 1969 to Jul 24, 1969

Apollo 11
Oct 3, 1972

SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Period: Dec 25, 1979 to 1988

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Nov 10, 1989

Fall of Berlin Wall
Dec 2, 1989

End of the Cold War
Dec 26, 1991

Fall of the Soviet Union