Events Of The Cold War

Event Yalta Potsdam America uses the A-Bomb Soviets Takeover Eastern Europe Iron Curtain Speech Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Berlin Blockade Formation of NATO USSR uses the A-Bomb China goes communist Korean War Stalin Dies Hungary-Polish Revolution Space Race U2 Incident Bay of Pigs Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis U2 in Cuba US-Soviet Hotline Test Ban Treaty L.B.Johnson L.Brezhnev Troops help in Vietnam Prague Spring Non-Proliferation Treaty US in Vietnam War Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) Soyuz-Apollo Space Link Helsinki Agreement President Carter critisizes the USSR Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) Iran Crisis Nicaragua Angola Soviet SS-20 in Eastern Europe USSR invade Afghanistan US boycott Moscow Olympics Reagan becomes President Intermediate Range Missile Talks Andropov replaces Brezhnev START Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) US crush communist revolution in Grenada LA Olympics boycotted by Soviets Chernenko replaces Andropov Gorbachev replaces Chernenko Glaznoz and Perestroika INF Treaty Eastern Europe Capitalist Revolution Berlin Wall Falls Formal End Of the Cold War

Rating 9 7 6.5 6 5 4.5 4.5 3 3 2.5 2.5 2 7 5 3 2 2 1.5 1 1 5 5 3 3 2.5 3 5 2.5 3 4 5 4 5 4 3 3 3 2 1.5 4 4 5 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 9 9.5

Date 1945 1945 1945 1946 1946 1947 1947 1948 1949 1949 1949 1950 1953 1956 1957 1960 1961 1961 1963 1963 1963 1963 1963

1964 1965 1968 1968 1969 1970 1975 1975 1977 1979 1979 1979 1979 1979 1980 1981 1981 1982 1982 1983 1983 1984 1984 1985 1985 1987 1989 1989 1989

Eastern-Western Germany Re-unification Soviet Union crushed

10 10

1990 1990