Cold War Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 23 Apr 2018
by diana z.
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Created byDiana Zhou
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Alliance for Progress
March 13, 1961Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 17, 1961U.S. backed coup in Iran
August 19, 1953Eisenhower Doctrine
January 5, 1957Sputnik launched
October 4, 1957Lunar Landing
July 20, 1969Apollo Soyuz joint mission
July 17, 1975Truman Doctrine
March 12, 1947Marshall Plan
June 3, 1948Berlin Wall built
August 13, 1961Berlin Wall falls
November 9, 1989Germany Unification
October 3, 1990Gorbachev Elected
March 15, 1990Helsinki Accords
August 1, 1975Chernobyl incident
April 26, 1986CIS created
December 8, 1991Geneva Summit
July 21, 1955Solidarity Movement
September 1980SDI
March 3, 1983US detonates 1st H-Bomb
November 1, 1952INF Treaty signed
December 8, 1987Soviets detonate atomic bomb
August 29, 1949Establishment of People’s Republic of China
October 1,1949North Korea invaded South Korea
June 25, 1950Mao Zedong dies
September 9, 1976UN sends troops to Korea
June 30, 1950Truce talks begin in Korea
July 10, 1951Armistice signed in Korea
July 27, 1953SEATO created
1954US sends troops to Vietnam
Feb 9, 1965Saigon falls to North Vietnam
April 30th 1975Khmer Rouge rises to power
April 17, 1975US invasion of Grenada
October 25, 1983Syrian Crisis
1957Suez War
October 1956Mohammad Mossadegh elected
1951US withdraws from Vietnam
August 15, 19731st man in space
April 12, 1961Division of Germany
1945Moscow Olympic Boycott
March 21, 1980Detente ends
January 2, 1980Detente begins/Berlin Agreement
1971Viet Cong founded
December 29, 1960Caribbean Basin Initiative
February 24, 1982Vietnam split along 17th Parallel
April 26, 1954Glasnost Institued
1985Perestroika instituted
1985Nationalist China (Taiwan) established
December 8, 1949Sino-Soviet Split
1960U.S. backed coup in Guatemala
1954Iran nationalizes its oil
March 15, 1951U.S. Intervention in Chile
September 11, 1973U.S. intervention in Nicaragua
November 1980Salt Treaty 1
May 26, 1972Salt 2 Treaty
June 18, 1979Hundred Flowers Campaign
1957Deng Xiaoping 4 modernizations
1977Korea divided at 38th Parallel
August 10, 1945Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
February 1989Break up of the USSR
December 6, 1991Soviet Coup
August 10, 1991Iran nationalized its oil
March 15, 1951Periods
Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988Cambodian genocide
1975-1979Prague Spring begins
January to August 1968Hungarian Uprising
October 23, 1956 to November 10, 1956Great Leap forward
1958-1962Tiananmen Square Protest
April 15, 1989 to June 4, 1989French and Indo China war
December 19, 1946 to August 1, 1954US invades Cambodia
April 29, 1970 to July 22, 1970Iranian Revolution
January 1978-February 1979Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962Cuban Revolution
July 26, 1953 to January 1, 1959Berlin Airlift
June 26, 1948- September 30, 1949Berlin Crisis
1958-1961Great Chinese Famine
1958-1961Cultural Revolution
1966-1976China joins Korean War
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