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Oct 14, 1890

Dwight D. Eisenhower Birth

https://darkmattersalot.com/2014/10/29/military-industrial-complex-speech-dwight-d-eisenhower-1961/
Period: Oct 14, 1890 to Mar 23, 1983

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Aug 27, 1908

Lyndon B. Johnson Birth
Feb 6, 1911

Ronald Reagan Birth

http://futurefemaleleader.com/7-reasons-why-we-miss-ronald-reagan/
Jan 9, 1913

Richard Nixon Birth

http://www.biography.com/people/richard-nixon-9424076
Jul 14, 1913

Gerald Ford Birth

http://www.myinterestingfacts.com/gerald-ford-facts/
May 29, 1917

John F. Kennedy Birth

https://www.immigrationdirect.com/blog/2013/11/in-remembrance-of-john-f-kennedy/
Jun 12, 1924

George Bush Sr. Birth

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/georgehwbush
Oct 1, 1924

Jimmy Carter Birth

http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-carter-9240013
Apr 1, 1927

China's Civil War

http://stimulatedboredom.com/historical/the-making-of-red-china-a-historiographical-analysis-of-the-chinese-civil-war/attachment/china_civil_war/
Aug 13, 1929

Francis Gary Powers

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/09/us/silver-star-award/
Feb 1, 1931

Boris Yeltsin Birth

https://quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/boris-yeltsin-remembered/
Sep 2, 1945

WW1 Ended

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs9bwmn
Oct 24, 1945

United Nations
Mar 5, 1946

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine
Apr 3, 1948

Marshall Plan
Jun 24, 1948

Berlin Airlift
Apr 4, 1949

NATO
Aug 29, 1949

USSR's First Atomic Bomb Test
Apr 25, 1950

Korean War
Jun 25, 1950

The End Of The Korean War
Nov 1, 1952

H-Bomb
Mar 5, 1953

Stalin's Death
Sep 8, 1954

SEATO
May 14, 1955

Warsaw Pact
Nov 1, 1955

Vietnam War
Jan 5, 1957

Eisenhower Doctrine
Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik
Jan 1, 1959

Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba
Apr 17, 1961

Bay Of Pigs
Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall
Oct 14, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
Nov 22, 1963

JFK Death
Jul 20, 1969

NASA's First Moon Landing

http://home.scarlet.be/~mb977459/nasa__zippo.htm
May 26, 1972

SALT Treaty

http://hornerhistory.weebly.com/the-washington-naval-conference-1921.html
May 26, 1972

SALT Treaty

http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/photos/1354/
Dec 1, 1979

Soviets Invade Afghanistan

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan
Feb 22, 1980

Miracle On Ice

http://www.foxsports.com/olympics/story/1980-us-olympic-hockey-miracle-on-ice-team-35th-anniversary-012215
Mar 23, 1983

STAR WARS

http://o0starrieskye0o.deviantart.com/art/Strategic-Defense-Initiative-Political-Cartoon-395038027
Jan 14, 1984

U.S. Boycott Of The Summer Olympics

http://adst.org/2014/02/moscow-gets-torched-the-boycott-of-the-1980-summer-games/
May 15, 1988

Soviets Leave Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/us-war-in-afghanistan-has-echoes-of-soviet-experience.html?_r=0
Jan 1, 1989

Tiananmen Square

http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/qa-stuart-franklins-view-on-tiananmen-square/
Nov 9, 1989

Berlin Wall Falls

http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2014/11/25-years-ago-the-berlin-wall-fell-why-did-it-fall.html
Jan 1, 1990

Gorbachev Came To Power

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev
Dec 25, 1991

Collapse of the Soviet Union

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union