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: Dates
Major Treaties:
Historic Figures:
Historic Events:
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1947 - The Truman Doctrine
Jun 1948 to May 1949 - Soviet Blockade of the Berlin
1948 - UKUSA agreement
1949 - NATO Treaty signed
1949 - Communists take power in China; Nationalists retreat to Taiwan
1950 to 1953 - Korean War
1952 - NSA (National Security Agency) established in US by Truman. "Spy" war officially began.
1955 - Warsaw Pact is formed
Oct. 31 1956 to Nov. 7 1956 - British-French offense in Suez
May 1 1960 - U-2 plane shut down over the USSR
April 17 1961 - The Bay of Pigs: US attempt to invade Cuba
Oct. 22 1962 to Oct. 27 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1960s to 1990s - UKUSA spy satellite network ECHELON is developed.
1964 to 1973 - Vietnam, Second Indochina war
August 20 1968 to August 21 1968 - Warshaw pact armies enter Czechoslovakia
April 30 1970 - US invasion of the Cambodia
June 11 1970 - USSR agrees to support Vietnam
1972 - US withdraws from Vietnam. SALT treaty signed. Nixon visits China.
1973 - Yom Kippur war
October 10 1973 - Soviet Union sends additional arms to Egypt
October 10 1973 - Washington airlift to Israel
October 1977 - USSR starts SS-20 rocket deployment
Dec. 1978 - Vietnam invades Cambodia
1979 to 1989 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Jan. 4 1980 - USA stops wheat sales to the USSR
Dec. 29 1981 - USA lays economic sanctions on USSR
1985 - Gorbachev begins policy of Perestroika
1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cold War officially ends.
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