Cold War

WWII 1939-1945- Stalin FDR/Truman

Berlin Airlift 1948-49- Stalin/Truman

Soviets test atomic bomb china becomes communist nato formed 1949- Stalin/Truman

Korean War 1950-53 - Stalin/Truman/Eisenhower

Failed uprising in Hungary 1956- Khrushchev/Eisenhower

Sputnik 1957- Khrushchev/Eisenhower

U2 Spy plane shot down 1960- Khrushchev/Eisenhower

Berlin Wall built bay of pigs 1961- Khrushchev/JFK

Cuban missile crisis 1962- Khrushchev/JFK

Vietnam war 1964- Khrushchev/Johnson

Era of detente begins 1972- Brezhnev/Nixon

Era of detente ends 1979-Brezhnev/carter

Glasnost and perestroika begins 1985- Brezhnev/reagan

Berlin Wall comes down 1989- Brezhnev/Bush Sr