The Cold War timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1995

United States of America
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1995

The Soviet Union
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1952

Truman
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1952

Stalin
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1953

The Korean War
Period: Jan 1, 1952 to Jan 1, 1960

Eisenhower
Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Dec 31, 1963

Khrushchev
Jan 1, 1956

The Hungarian Uprising
Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1962

Kennedy
Jan 1, 1961

Berlin Wall built
Oct 1, 1962

The Cuban missile crisis
Period: Jan 1, 1963 to May 15, 1968

Johnson
Period: Sep 30, 1963 to Oct 1, 1972

American military involvement in Vietnam
Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1981

Brezhnev
Jan 1, 1968

The Prague Spring: Czechoslovakia
Period: May 16, 1968 to Oct 15, 1974

Nixon
Period: Oct 16, 1974 to Oct 15, 1976

Ford
Period: Oct 16, 1976 to Jan 31, 1980

Carter
Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 1981

Solidarity in Poland
Period: Feb 1, 1980 to May 31, 1988

Reagan
Period: Jan 1, 1982 to Dec 31, 1983

Andropov
Period: Jan 1, 1984 to Sep 30, 1985

Chernenko
Period: Oct 1, 1985 to Dec 31, 1990

Gorbachev
Period: Jun 1, 1988 to Feb 1, 1992

Bush
Jan 1, 1989

Collapse of Communism in eastern Europe
Jan 1, 1991

Collapse of Soviet Union
Period: Feb 2, 1992 to Dec 31, 2001

Clinton