Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush Clinton 1947 1949 1950 1960 1980 1990 DETENTE (19621975) Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev Andropov/ Chernenko Gorbachev 1947: Marshall Aid+ Truman Doctrine and Cominform 1949: Berlin Blockade (june 1948 May 1949) CreaSon of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German DemocraSc Republic 19501953: The Korean war 1956: Hungarian uprising 1961: Berlin Wall built 1962: The Cuban missile crisis American military involvement in Vietnam (19641973) 1968: The Prague Spring: Czechoslovakia 1989: Collapse of communism in eastern Europe Berlin wall: november 1989 1991: collapse of Soviet Union Cold war renewal 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Coexistence The arms race