Truman Doctrine

Yalta Conference

Formation of NATO

Potsdam Conference

Berlin Blockade

U2 spy plane shot down

Prague Spring

Kennedy becomes President

Hungarian Uprising

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Death of Stalin

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall built

Carter Doctrine

Collapse of the USSR

Boycott of Moscow Olympics

Strategic Defence Initiative (S.D.I.)

Bay of Pigs Incident

I.N.F. Treaty signed

Fall of Berlin Wall