1. Cold War Timeline 4 Decades of events

2. 1946 Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech

3. 1947 Truman Doctrine-US helps Greece-hard military side of containment

4. 1947 Marshall Plan announced soft financial side of containment

5. 1948 Berlin Blockade-USSR blocks Berlin and we airlift in supplies

6. 1949 Moa Zedong take controll of China

7. 1949 USSR explodes first nuclear weapon

8. 1950 McCarthy with hunts begin

9. 1950 North Korea invades South Korea

10. 1953 Rosenberg's executed

11. 1954 Vietnam splits at 17th

12. 1957 First satellite in space, Sputnik launched

13. 1959 Fidel overtakes Cuba

14. 1960 Soviets shoot down US CIA U2 spy plane

15. 1960 Kennedy elected President

16. 1961 Bay of Pigs fails

17. 1961 Khrushchev puts Berlin Wall up

18. 1962 US send more troops to Vietnam

19. 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

20. 1963 Kennedy assassinated

21. 1964 Golf of Tonkin incident

22. 1965 US sends troops to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

23. 1969 Apollo 11 lands on moon (Neil Armstrong)

24. 1970 Nixon extends war into Cambodia

25. 1973 Cease fire in Vietnam

26. 1973 US helps overthrow Chile government

27. 1974 Egypt and Syria attack Israel

28. 1974 Nixon resigns

29. 1979 Shah of Iran overthrown- Iran Hostage Crises (66 Americans help hostage for 444 days in Iran) took over Embassy in Tehran.

30. 1983 US helps overthrow Grenada

31. 1983 Iran Contra affair-arms sold in Iran go towards Contra (member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua) support in Nicaragua

32. 1986 Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all nuclear weapons from Europe

33. 1989 Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan

34. 1989 China puts down democracy revolt- Poland becomes independent

35. 1989 Hungary becomes independent

36. 1989 November-Wall comes down

37. 1989 Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania become independent- free from Soviet control

38. 1990 Lithuania independent

39. 1990 Yeltsin becomes Russian President.

40. 1991 Cold War ends: End of Soviet Union (Russia)