Key Events of Cold War
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Updated: 18 Jun 2023
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Created byJuleah Francis
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Molotov Plan (1947)Formation of NATO (April 4th 1949)Bandung Conference (April 18, 1955)Formation of the Warsaw Pact (May 14, 1955)SALT I (May 26th 1972)Chilean Coup, 1973SALT II (June 17, 1979)Development of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (March 23, 1983)The Fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989)Periods
Truman DoctrineMarshall Plan (April 1948–December 1951)Berlin Blockade (June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949)Korean War (June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953)Nikita Khrushchev takes OfficeVietnam War (November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975)Hungarian Revolution (October 23, 1956 – November 11, 1956)Suez Crisis (October 29, 1956 (July 26, 1956)– November 7, 1956)Sino-Soviet Split (1960 – 1989)Berlin Crisis (June 4, 1961 – November 9, 1961)Berlin Wall (1961-1989)Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16, 1962 – October 29, 1962)Leonid Brezhnev takes Office (1964 until his death in 1982)Invasion of Czechoslovakia (August 20, 1968 – August 21, 1968)Helsinki AccordsThe Iran-Contra Affair (August 20, 1985 – March 4, 1987)Mikhail Gorbachev takes Office (from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991)Perestroika (1985 until 1991)Glasnost (1986–1991)Invasion of Afghanistan (October 7th 2001 - August 30th, 2021)Ronald Reagan takes Office
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