Cold War

• Berlin Wall created


  1961
• Paris Summit


  1960
• Vienna Summit


  1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis


  1962
• Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

  1968
• SALT 1 agreement


  1972
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter Doctrine, end of Detente


  1979
• USA boycotted Moscow Olympics


  1980
• Reagan announces Strategic Defence Initiative


  1983
• Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union


  1985
• Reykjavik summit, no agreement reached


  1986
• Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed

  1987
• Fall of Berlin Wall

  1989
• Collapse of Soviet Union

  1991