Cold War Timeline

1. Cold War Timeline

2. Truman 1944-53; Eisenhower 1953-61; Kennedy 1961-63; Johnson 1963-69 Non-Aligned Movement Berlin Wall Truman Doctrine/ Marshall Plan Hungarian Uprising Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War World War II NATO Warsaw Pact 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Blockade The United States enters Vietnam Communist win in China U-2 Spy Plane Incident Soviets explode nuclear bomb: nuclear arms race begins Kennedy Assassinated Stalin 1933-45; Malenkov 1953-55; Khrushchev 1955-64; Brezhnev 1964-82

3. Nixon 1969-74; Ford 1974-77; Carter 1977-81; Reagan 1981-89; Bush 1989-93 Reagan Doctrine Counter-Culture Movement Massive military expansion of U.S. Anti-War Movement Soviet Union Ends “Star Wars” Iranian Revolution Civil Rights Movement U.S. leaves Vietnam 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1991 Prague Spring Chernobyl Incident Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Period of Detente glasnost and perestroika SALT I and II Treaty Non-Proliferation Treaty Eastern Europe gains Independence Brezhnev 1964-82; Andropov 1982-84; Chernenko 1984-85; Gorbachev 1985-1991