A Timeline of the Cold War

Checkpoint Charlie Standoff Warsaw Treaty North Atlantic Treaty The Greek Civil War The SALT II Agreement Moscow Summit (1972) The U-2 Plane Incident The Prague Decleration The Cobalt Scare Viking Funerals The Soviet False Alarm Incident The Bandung Conference Construction of Berlin Wall Begins The Truman Doctrine The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict New event Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia (1948) Ike's Atoms for Peace speech December 8 (1953) Operation Blue Bat The Angolan Civil War Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified U.S. troops overthrow Regime in Grenada The Korean Armistice Agreement The Soviet Invasion of Hungary Big Ivan/Tsar Bomba test Big Ivan/Tsar Bomba test The Russian Army Captures Berlin Operation Ivy Bells Castle Bravo Test The Novikov Telegram (1946) The Prague Spring Development of the First Hydrogen Bomb Iron Curtain Speech Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan Operation Chrome Dome Korean War (1950) Iranian Hostage Crisis Independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Potsdam Conference (1945) Operation Acoustic Kitty Project Coldfeet Project MK Ultra Vietnam War Project Mk Ultra Vietnam War The Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969) An example of a time span Titan ll Missile 1963-1987 The Paris Peace Accords (1973) U2 spy incident (1960) Formation of the CIA (1947 Able Archer 83 Operation Anadyr The Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) Soviet-Afghan WarThe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989) was nearly a decade long conflict between the Soviet Union and Afghan resistance fighters, known as the Mujahideen. In Afghanistan, the communist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan had total control of the government. They began purging opposition, and implementing reforms into society. This angered the anti-communist muslims that resided in Afghanistan. When they began revolting, it forced the Soviet Union to intervene in order to suppor Soviet-Afghan War Project completed