1. Cold War TIMELINE

2. 1945 – UNITED NATIONS; COLD WAR STARTS; YALTA AGREEMENT
1946 – 1954 – WAR AGAINST THE FRENCH IN INDOCHINA
1947 – TRUMAN DOCTRINE
1948 – BERLIN AIRLIFT
1949 – SOVIET UNION HAD NUCLEAR BOMB
1949 – NATO FORMED
1949 – COMMUNISTS CONTROL CHINA

3. 1950 – 1953 – KOREAN WAR
1952 – U.S. TEST FIRST HYDROGEN BOMB IN MARSHALL ISLANDS
1953 – SOVIETS TEST HYDROGEN BOMB
1955 – WARSAW PACT CREATED
1957 – LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK
1950s – McCARTHY HEARINGS
1958 – 1960 – GREAT LEAP FORWARD

4. 1959 – CASTRO TAKES OVER IN CUBA
1961 – BAY OF PIGS INVASION; BERLIN WALL BUILT
1962 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
1963 – INSTALLATION OF A HOT LINE
1963 – 1975 – VIETNAM WAR
1964 – GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION
1966 – CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA

5. 1969 – STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS (SALT) BEGINS
1979 – SOVIET UNION INVADED AFGHANISTAN
1970s – DÉTENTE
1985 – GORBACHEV TAKES POWER IN RUSSIA

6. 1987 – INTERMEDIATE RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY
1989 – BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN
1990 – UNIFICATION OF EAST AND WEST GERMANY
1991 – COLD WAR ENDS; RUSSIA CRUMBLES