The cold war

  • USSR Stalin

    1924-1953
  • President Truman

    1945-1953
  • Churchill warns of Iron Curtains

    1946
  • The cold war

    1947-1991
  • Second Red Scare/ McCarthyism

    1947-1954
  • Berlin Blockade

    1948-1949
  • Rosenburg/ Sobell Trial

    1950-1953
  • Korean War

    1950-1953
  • President Eisenhower

    1953-1961
  • Vietnam

    1954-1975
  • USSR Khrushchev

    1955-1964
  • Space Race

    1959-1975
  • President Kennedy

    1961-1963
  • Bay of Pigs

    1961
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    1961
  • Berlin Wall

    1961-1989
  • President Johnson

    1963-1969
  • Brezhnev

    1964-1982
  • President Nixon

    1969-1974
  • Detente

    1969
  • President NIxon

    1969-1974
  • President Ford

    1974-1977
  • President Carter

    1977-1981
  • President Reagan

    1981-1989
  • USSR Gorabchev

    1985-1991
  • USSR falls apart

    1991