Cold War The cold war timeline 1947 - US president H. Truman's doctrine on containment of communism 1947-52 - Marshall Plan US Aid for reconstruction of Western Europe 1948-49 - Berlin Blockade by USSR and airlift of supplies to West Berlin 1950-53 Korean war 1954 Defeat of French by Vietnamese at Dien Bein phu Signing Geneva Accords Div of Vietnam along 17th parallel Formation of SEATO 1954-75 American Intervention in Vietnam 1955 signing Baghdad pact later CENTO 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary 1961 US sponsored Bay Of Pigs invasion of Cuba Const of Berlin Wall 1962 Cuban Missile crisis 1965 American Intervention in Dominican Rep 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia 1972 US President Richard Nixon's visit to China 1978-89 Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia 1979-89 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan 1985 Gorbachev becomes President of USSR reform started 1989...