Cold War Event Rankings — T5B5

Fifty of the most significant events and crises of the Cold War era.

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All Items (50)

Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–1949)—

Korean War (1950–1953)—

Hungarian Revolution (1956)—

Suez Crisis (1956)—

Sputnik Launch (1957)—

Cuban Revolution (1959)—

U-2 Spy Plane Incident (1960)—

Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)—

Berlin Wall Construction (1961)—

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)—

Assassination of JFK (1963)—

Vietnam War escalation — Gulf of Tonkin (1964)—

Prague Spring (1968)—

Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969)—

Nixon visits China (1972)—

SALT I Agreement (1972)—

Chilean Coup (1973)—

Fall of Saigon (1975)—

Helsinki Accords (1975)—

Iranian Revolution (1979)—

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979)—

Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979–1981)—

Solidarity Movement in Poland (1980)—

Reagan's 'Evil Empire' speech (1983)—

Able Archer 83 war scare (1983)—

Grenada Invasion (1983)—

KAL Flight 007 shootdown (1983)—

Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power (1985)—

Chernobyl Disaster (1986)—

Iran-Contra Affair (1986–1987)—

INF Treaty (1987)—

Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)—

Tiananmen Square (1989)—

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)—

Velvet Revolution — Czechoslovakia (1989)—

Romanian Revolution (1989)—

German Reunification (1990)—

Gulf War (1990–1991)—

Baltic States independence (1991)—

Dissolution of the USSR (1991)—

Boris Yeltsin era begins (1991)—

Warsaw Pact dissolution (1991)—

SALT II negotiations—

Nuclear arms race—

Space Race—

Non-Aligned Movement—

Korean DMZ establishment (1953)—

Taiwan Strait Crises (1954–1958)—

Congo Crisis (1960–1965)—

Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)—