Event Rating Date

Yalta 9 1945
Potsdam 7 1945
America uses the A-Bomb 6.5 1945
Soviets Takeover Eastern Europe 6 1946
Iron Curtain Speech 5 1946
Marshall Plan 4.5 1947
Truman Doctrine 4.5 1947
Berlin Blockade 3 1948
Formation of NATO 3 1949
USSR uses the A-Bomb 2.5 1949
China goes communist 2.5 1949
Korean War 2 1950
Stalin Dies 7 1953
Hungary-Polish Revolution 5 1956
Space Race 3 1957
U2 Incident 2 1960
Bay of Pigs 2 1961
Berlin Wall 1.5 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis 1 1963
U2 in Cuba 1 1963
US-Soviet Hotline 5 1963
Test Ban Treaty 5 1963
L.B.Johnson 3 1963
L.Brezhnev 3 1964
Troops help in Vietnam 2.5 1965
Prague Spring 3 1968
Non-Proliferation Treaty 5 1968
US in Vietnam War 2.5 1969
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) 3 1970
Soyuz-Apollo Space Link 4 1975
Helsinki Agreement 5 1975
President Carter critisizes the USSR 4 1977
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) 5 1979
Iran Crisis 4 1979
Nicaragua Angola 3 1979
Soviet SS-20 in Eastern Europe 3 1979
USSR invade Afghanistan 3 1979
US boycott Moscow Olympics 2 1980
Reagan becomes President 1.5 1981
Intermediate Range Missile Talks 4 1981
Andropov replaces Brezhnev 4 1982
START 5 1982
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) 3 1983
US crush communist revolution in
Grenada 2 1983
LA Olympics boycotted by Soviets 3 1984
Chernenko replaces Andropov 4 1984
Gorbachev replaces Chernenko 5 1985
Glaznoz and Perestroika 6 1985
INF Treaty 7 1987
Eastern Europe Capitalist Revolution 9 1989
Berlin Wall Falls 9 1989
Formal End Of the Cold War 9.5 1989
Eastern-Western Germany Re-unification 10 1990
Soviet Union crushed 10 1990