Cold War Timeline
- StartEndEvent
- 1946
Prologue
- 1946
Iron Curtain
- 1947
Truman Doctrine
- 1947
Cominform
- 19481948
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
- 1948
Marshall Plan
- 19481949
Berlin Blockade
- 1949
Cold War in Asia
- 1949
NATO founded
- 19501953
Korean War
- 1955
Warsaw Pact
- 19551975
Space Race
- 19551975
Vietnam War
- 19561956
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 19561956
Suez Crisis
- 19581956
Berlin Crisis
- 19591975
Cuban Revolution
- 19611989
Sino-Soviet split
- 19611989
Berlin Wall
- 19621962
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19651966
Indonesian Genocide
- 1969
Arms Control
- 1972
Nixon in China
- 19791985
New Cold War
- 19791989
Soviet–Afghan War
- 19851991
Final Period of the Cold War
- 1985
Reagan Doctrine
- 1992
Epilogue
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