Timeline of the Cold War

Russia invades Ukraine Fall of the Berlin Wall Women's Armed Services Integration Act - Keira Soviet Union Entered Helsinki Summer Games - LUCY USA Moon Landing Creation Of NATO - LUCY Einstein Fled to The United States February 25th: Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. August 29th: Russia tests its first atomic bomb. USSR Tests First Nuclear Wepon President John F. Kennedy assassinated U.S. Tests First Hydrogen Bomb Greek Civil War - Two-stage conflict - LUCY Operation Ivory Coast: The Raid to Free American POWs - Keira December 19th: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies. April 17th: North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Forty-Four Titan II ICBMs Deployed by USA Hotline Established between Moscow and Washington - Luke Communists Take Power in Czechoslovakia - Keira Dissolution of the Soviet Union Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech - Keira New event Bay of Pigs Invasion - Keira 9/11 Terrorist Attack - Begin War on Terror Able Archer January 31st: Explorer I launched Hungarian Revolution The Prague Spring U-2 Incident December 27th: The USSR invaded Afghanistan. Early 1963: The Titan II deployed by the United States. October 16th: American U-2 spy plane took photographs of Soviet nuclear missile launch sites. Start of the Berlin Wall Regan and Gorbachev Sign the INF Treaty The Russian Army captures Berlin Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Keira Cuban Missle Crisis - Luke The Space Race Korean War Korean War The Berlin Blockade and Airlift Proxy War (The Congo) Big Ivan or Tsar Bomb Eisenhower’s New Look foreign policy First French Indochina War Chinese Civil War Iran Crisis of 1946 Chinese Civil War - Luke 1958 Lebanon Crisis - Luke Mau Mau Uprising First Sudanese Civil War Iranian Hostage Crisis Suez Crisis - Luke Vietnam War