The Cold War

H.U.A.C.

May 26, 1938

YALTA Conference

Feb 11, 1945

Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Marshall Plan

Apr 3, 1948

Berlin Aircraft

Jun 26, 1948

Alger Hiss

Aug 3, 1948

Chinese Communist Revolution

Jan 1, 1949

NATO

Apr 4, 1949

Soviets Detonation of the Atomic Bomb

Aug 29, 1949

McCarthyism/ Red Scare

Mar 29, 1950

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

McCarran

Sep 23, 1950

Rosenberg Spy Case Begins

Mar 6, 1951

H Bomb

Nov 1, 1952

Stalin's Death

Mar 5, 1953

Arm's Race

Mar 17, 1953

Domino Theory

Aug 4, 1953

Massive Retaliation

Jan 12, 1954

Dien Bien Phu

Mar 13, 1954

Guatemalan Coup

Jun 18, 1954

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

Khrushchev’s Secret Speech

Feb 24, 1956

Vietnam War

Dec 1, 1956

Space Race

Jan 1, 1957

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

Fidel Castro

Feb 16, 1959

Neutron Bomb

Jan 1, 1960

U-2 Spy Plane Affair

May 1, 1960

U.S.S. Scorpion

Aug 22, 1960

Bay Of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 14, 1962

The B-59 Submarine Incident

Oct 27, 1962

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Aug 5, 1963

Hotline

Aug 30, 1963

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 10, 1964

Leonid Brezhnev

Oct 14, 1964

Indonesian Coup

Sep 30, 1965

Trsscomm

Jan 1, 1967

Six Day War

Jun 5, 1967

U.S.S. Liberty

Jun 8, 1967

Tet Offensive

Jan 31, 1968

Prague Spring Revolution

Aug 20, 1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

Nov 13, 1968

Vietnamization

Nov 3, 1969

SALT

Nov 17, 1969

Détente

Dec 1, 1969

Cambodia and Khmer Rouge

Apr 17, 1975

Helsinki Accords

Aug 1, 1975

NORAD Computer Glitch

Nov 9, 1979

Afghanistan War

Dec 24, 1979

M.A.D

Jul 25, 1980

Solidarity

Aug 31, 1980

Ronald Reagan

Jan 20, 1981

SDI

Mar 23, 1983

Able Archer 83 Exercise

Nov 7, 1983

John Walker

May 1, 1985

Perestroika

Jan 1, 1986

Glasnost

Jan 1, 1986

INF Treaty

Dec 8, 1987

Gorbachev

Mar 15, 1990

German Reunification

Oct 3, 1990