| Event | Year |
| USSR collapses | |
| Ford replaces Nixon | |
| Hotline set up from White house to Kremlin | |
| Kennedy elected | |
| Test ban treaty | |
| Gorbachevs new reforms | |
| Gorbachev put in power | |
| Nixon elected | |
| USA begins fighting Vietnam War | |
| Carter elected | |
| Hungarian Uprising | |
| US explodes first H-Bomb | |
| Berlin Wall | |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| L.A olympics boycotted by USSR | |
| Soviets walk out of INF meetings SDI | |
| Helsinki Agreement | |
| Johnson in power | |
| Start of SALT talks | |
| Andropov put in power | |
| Berlin Wall falls | |
| President Reagen Elected | |
| Cherynobyl crisis | |
| Apollo Suyez Mission | |
| Marshall Plan and Aid | |
| Truman elected | |
| Outer space Treaty | |
| | Event | Year |
| Eisenhower elected | |
| Start of Detente | |
| Velvet Revolution | |
| Chernenko put in power | |
| Nato | |
| Yalta Conference | |
| Formation of West Germany | |
| USSR explodes H-Bomb | |
| Russia explodes first nuke | |
| Formation of EastGermany | |
| Potsdam Conference | |
| End of Detente | |
| Churchill Iron curtain Speech | |
| Kruschev put in power | |
| Tehran Conference | |
| Moscow olympics boycotted by USA | |
| Berlin Blockade and Airlift | |
| INF treaty | |
| Gorbachev resigns | |
| Non-proliferation Treaty | |
| Stalin dies | |
| USSR invades Afghanistan | |
| Czechoslovakia | |
| Roosevelt dies | |
| Brezhnev put in power | |
| Truman Doctorine | |
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