Negotiation 1945

• Yalta - The Cold War Begins
• End of the War in Europe May 7
• End of the War in Asia Aug. 15
• First Year of the Cold War

Demonstrations 1946

• The Nuclear Arms Race
• Rise of Josef Stalin
• Churchill at Fulton March 5
• Truman 1946

Containment 1947-1949

• The Crisis of Harry Truman
• Containment
• Venona
• Cold War Spies
• Age of Paranoia
• NATO's 50th Anniversary

Coercion 1950-1968

• Dean Acheson 1949-50
• Korean War 1950-53
• Eisenhower 1953-61
• Khrushchev
• Kitchen Debate 1959
• JFK and the Search for Friends
• JFK and the Search for Peace
• LBJ 1963-68
• Konrad Adenauer and Treaties of Rome

Detente 1968-1980

• Nixon 1968-74
• Ford 1974-76
• Carter 1976-80
• Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik
  

Confrontation 1980-1985

• The Arms Race Renewed
• Titan II ICBM
• Reagan 1980-84
• Ronald Reagan Home Page

Glasnost 1985-1989

• Reagan 1985-89
  
• Mikhail Gorbachev from EGO Russia Guide
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed 12/8/87
• Arms Control treaties from FAS

Revolution 1989-1991

• The Triumph of Solidarity
• Mazowiecki wins Poland's 1st free election 6/89
  
• Hungary opens border 10/89
  
• East Germany opens Berlin Wall 11/9/89
• Ceausescu executed in Romania 12/25/89
  
• Vaclav Havel president of Czechoslovakia 12/29/89
  
• Lithuania votes independence 3/90
  
• Germany unified under Helmut Kohl 10/90
  
• August coup fails & CIS replaces USSR 12/91
  
• Bush 1989-93

Aftermath

• Clinton 1993-2001

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