Prelude to the cold war and the cold war timeline project

Roosevelt Presidency

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

Tehran Conference

Nov 28, 1943

Roosevelt signs s Servicemen Readjustment Act of 1944 signed into law

Jun 22, 1944

Yalta conference

Feb 4, 1945

Truman Presidency

Period: Apr 9, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953

Potsdam Conference

Jul 17, 1945

Baby Boom/Baby Boomers

Period: 1946 to 1964

Cold War

Period: 1947 to 1991

Truman announces The Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Marshall plan signed into law

Apr 3, 1948

The Truman Doctrine aids Greece and Turkey

Jul 4, 1948

The Fall of Nationalist China and the retreat to Taiwan

1949

NATO Founded

Apr 4, 1949

NSC 68 presented to Truman

Apr 7, 1950

Korean War begins

Jul 25, 1950

Eisenhower Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961

Cuban revolution begins

Jul 26, 1953

American sponsored Iranian coup d'état takes place

Aug 15, 1953

Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins in Vietnam

Mar 13, 1954

American sponsored Guatemalan coup d'état takes place

Jun 18, 1954

American Involvement in Vietnam

Period: 1955 to 1973

Warsaw Pact founded

May 14, 1955

Space race

Period: Aug 2, 1955 to Jul 24, 1969

Sputnik I Launched

Oct 4, 1957

NASA founded

Jul 29, 1958

Cuban dictator Batista ousted revolution ends

Dec 31, 1958

Francis Gary Powers shot down causing U2 incident

May 1, 1960

Kennedy Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963

Bay of pigs incident begins

Apr 17, 1961

Bay of pigs ends with Cuban victory

Apr 19, 1961

Cuban missile crisis

Oct 16, 1962

Cuban missile crisis ends

Oct 28, 1962

Ngo Diem Coup

Nov 1, 1963

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Nov 22, 1963

Johnson Presidency

Period: Nov 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969

Civil Rights Act enacted

Jul 2, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Aug 2, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed

Aug 7, 1964

Assassination of Malcolm X

Feb 21, 1965

Voting Rights Act enacted

Aug 6, 1965

Tet Offensive launched

Jan 30, 1968

Assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Jun 6, 1968

Nixon Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Aug 9, 1974

First Earth Day

Apr 20, 1970

Nixon launches Cambodia incursion

Apr 29, 1970

Environmental Protection Agency founded

Dec 2, 1970

Paris Peace Accords signed

Jan 27, 1973

Ford Presidency

Period: Aug 9, 1974 to Jan 20, 1977

Pardon of Richard Nixon

Sep 8, 1974

Mayaguez Incident

May 12, 1975

Carter Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981

Iran Hostage crisis begins

Nov 4, 1979

ades Afghanistan

Dec 25, 1979

Iran hostage release

Jan 20, 1981

Reagan Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 20, 1989

Reykjavik Summit

Oct 11, 1986

Bush Sr. Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1989 to Jan 20, 1993

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

First Gulf/Iraq War begins

Aug 2, 1990

First Gulf/iraw War ends

Feb 28, 1991

Warsaw Pact dissolved

Jul 1, 1991

Clinton Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1993 to Jan 20, 2001

Bush Jr. Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 2001 to Jan 20, 2009

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

US invades Afghanistan

Oct 7, 2001

Iraq War ends

Dec 18, 2001

Second Iraq War begins

Mar 20, 2003

Obama Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 2009 to Jan 20, 2017

Osama Bin Laden killed

May 2, 2011