Kennan and the Long Telegram
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Creation of NATO
Joe McCarthy/Red Scare
Korean War
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Rise of the CIA & assisting nations in turmoil
Warsaw Pact
Launch of Sputnik
Hydrogen Bomb
Kitchen Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
Castro's takeover of Cuba
Creation of the Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Vietnam War
Apollo Program/Man on the Moon
Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff
U2 Incident and prisoner exchange
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Test Band Treaty
Prague Spring
SALT Talks & Detente
Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky in the chess match of the century
1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final
1976 beat down of the Soviet Red Army hockey team by the Philadelphia Flyers
Pope John Paul I's return to Poland
1980 Olympic Boycott
The Miracle on Ice
Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative/Star Wars
1984 Olympic Boycott
Reykjavik Summit
Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech
Tiananman Square Massacre
Polish Solidarity (1989)
Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification
Yeltsin's call to Bush - December 25, 1991