United States Relations with Russia Timeline: The Cold War
Chronology
Office of the Historian
Washington, DC
1945-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1985
1986-1989
1945-1949
1945-1946: Creation of Eastern European People's Republics
1946: George Kennan's Long Telegram and the Policy of Containment
1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
1946: Soviet Troops in Iran
1947: Truman Doctrine
1947: U.S. Efforts to Control Atomic Energy
1947: Marshall's Offer of Economic Assistance
1948-1949: Berlin Airlift
1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1949: Creation of the two Germanys
1949: Soviet Atomic Bomb
1950-1959
1950: Sino-Soviet Treaty
1950: NSC-68
1950-1953: Korean War
1952: U.S. Hydrogen Bomb
1953: Stalin's Death
1953: Soviet Hydrogen Bomb
1954: Atomic Energy Act
1955: Creation of the Warsaw Pact
1955: Austrian State Treaty
1955: Big Four Geneva Summit
1956: Twentieth Congress of Soviet Communist Party
1956: Polish Uprising
1956: Suez Crisis
1956: Hungarian Uprising
1957-1958: Sputnik and the Space Race
1958: Suspension of Nuclear Tests
1958: Khrushchev's Berlin Demands
1959: Khrushchev Visits the United States
1959: Khrushchev-Eisenhower Meeting at Camp David
1959: Antarctic Treaty
1960-1969
1960: The U-2 Incident
1960: Paris Summit
1960: United States Unveils "Great Seal Bug" at the United Nations
1961: Vienna Meeting
1961: Berlin Crisis
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: Establishment of the "Hotline"
1963: Limited Test Ban Treaty
1964: Fall of Khrushchev
1965: U.S. Troops to Vietnam
1967: Treaty on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
1967: Johnson and Kosygin Meeting
1968: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968: Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1969: Soviet Submarine Base in Cuba
1970-1979
1971: Nuclear Weapons Ban on Seabed
1971: Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin
1971: Agreement to Reduce Risk of Nuclear War
1972: Moscow Summit
1973: Brezhnev-Nixon Meeting in the United States
1973: Force Reduction Meeting in Vienna
1974: Moscow Summit
1974: Vladivostok Meeting
1974: Jackson-Vanik Amendment
1975: Apollo-Soyuz Mission
1975: Helsinki CSCE Meetings
1979: SALT II Agreements
1979: New Moscow Embassy
1979: NATO Action Against Soviet SS-20 Deployments
1979: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1980-1985
1980: Gromyko-Muskie Meeting Geneva
1980: Olympic Boycott
1980: Talks on Medium Range Missiles
1981: Lifting of Embargo
1981: Strategic Arms Reduction Proposal
1981: Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Negotiations
1981: Martial Law in Poland
1982: Arms Reductions Refused by United States
1982: Grain Embargo Lifted
1982: Brezhnev's Funeral
1983: Reagan's Open Letter to Europe
1983: Announcement of Strategic Defense Initiative
1983: INF Talks
1983: Lifting of Grain Negotiations Ban
1983: Downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007
1983: INF Talks
1983: START Talks
1983: Breakdown of INF Talks
1983: Breakdown of START Negotiations
1984: Death of Soviet Leader
1984: U.S.S. Kitty Hawk Incident
1984: Soviet Olympic Boycott
1984: Improvements to the Hotline
1984: Proposal for Future Arms Control Talks
1985: Geneva Meeting
1985: Death of Chernenko
1985: Arms Negotiations Resumed
1985: New Bilateral Trade Agreements
1985: Geneva Summit
1985: Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Proposal
1986-1989
1986: Televised Greetings
1986: Nuclear Test Moratorium Proposed
1986: Chernobyl Disaster
1986: Commercial Flights Resumed
1986: Nuclear Risk Reduction
1986: Reykjavik Summit
1986: START Proposal
1987: Nuclear and Space Talks
1987: Discovery of Electronic Listening Devices at U.S. Embassy
1987: Agreement on Nuclear Risk Reduction
1987: Draft START Treaty
1987: Soviet Draft Treaty
1987: Washington Summit
1987: Gorbachev, Man of Year
1988: Moscow Summit
1988: Communist Party of the Soviet Union's XIXth Party Conference
1988: New York Meeting
1989: Vienna Meeting
1989: Gorbachev Elected President
1989: Secretary Baker's Visit to Moscow
1989: President Bush's Speech on the Soviet Union
1989: U.S.-Soviet Military Agreement
1989: Baker and Shevardnadze Meeting
1989: Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
1989: U.S. and Soviet Leaders Met at Malta
