Cold War Timeline

Harry Truman April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953

Jan 20, 1945

~ The Marshall Plan was passed in 1949 authorizing the US government to assist nations at risk from communism.
~The United Nations Charter in 1945 made the US becomes the 1st nation to complete the ratification process and join the new organization.
~The US will provide assistance to democratic nations under threat established by the Truman Doctrine in 1947.
~ NATO, a military alliance of European and North American democracies to strengthen international ties, was created in 1949.

Dwight Eisenhower January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961

Jan 20, 1953

~The intense Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the US became known as the Red Scare in the early '50s.
~McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations without legal evidence and was used in the early '50s.
~ North Korea invades South Korea in 1950, starting the Korean War, lasting until '53.
~The Vietnam War was an armed conflict that marked the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, against South Vietnam and it's ally, the US, beginning in '54.

John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963

Jan 20, 1961

~The Cuban Missile Crisis was the confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba.
~Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, was an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles supported by the US. government.

Lyndon B. Johnson November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969

Nov 22, 1963

~President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald in downtown Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson fill in the empty presidential spot.

Richard Nixon January 20, 1969, 1974 – August 9

Jan 20, 1969

~The Vietnam War was an armed conflict that marked the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, against South Vietnam and it's ally, the US, beginning in '54 and ended in '74.

Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989

Jan 20, 1981

~ The Berlin Wall represented the division of Europe and its fall came to represent the end of the Cold War and communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, along with the Revolutios of 1989.

George H.W. Bush January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993

Jan 20, 1989

~The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries in December, 1991 due to several internal conflicts, like communism.
~ The Berlin Wall represented the division of Europe and its fall came to represent the end of the Cold War and communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
~ The Persian Gulf War was waged by allied forces from 35 nations led by the US against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait in 1990 1991.

Bill Clinton January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001

Jan 20, 1993

President Bill Clinton created the world's largest free trade zone by signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994. The purpose of the NAFTA agreement was designed to increase trade among United States, Canada, and Mexico by reducing or eliminating restrictions on commerce, such as tariffs and import quotas.

George W. Bush January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009

Jan 20, 2001

~Tuesday, 11 September 2001, nineteen members of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda perpetrated a devastating, deadly assault on the United States, crashing airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, killing thousands.
~The Iraq War was fought between Iraq and a coalition of forces led by the United States from 2003 to 2011 for not complying with peace terms.