Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948
Formation of NATO, 1949
Warsaw Pact, 1955
Suez Crisis, 1956
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Berlin Wall built, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Prague Spring, 1968
SALT 1 signed, 1972
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
Able Archer 83, 1983
Gorbachev becomes USSR leader, 1985