Timeline:
1945 September 2nd: The Second World War ends
1945: The Gouzenko Affair in Canada
1948 June - 1949 May: The Berlin Blockade
1948 June - 1949 September: The Berlin Airlift
1949: NATO formed
1950 - 1953: The Korean War
1954 - 1975: The Vietnam War
1955: The founding of the Warsaw Pact
1956: The Suez Crisis
1957: Launching of the first artificial satellite by the Soviet Union
1957: Canada and the United States create NORAD
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: Assassination of President Kennedy
1964: Civil War breaks out in Cyprus; Canadian troops sent to maintain peace
1968: The United States, Soviet Union, and Britain sign the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Treaty
1970's: Détente between the opposing superpowers
1971: Recognition of the communist government as the official government of China
1972: SALT I signed between the United States and the Soviet Union
1973: the Yom Kippur War
1975: The Helsinki Accords were agreed upon by the United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, and various other European nations
1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, end of détente
1988: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
1989: A series of anti - communist revolutions in Eastern Europe; collapse of Warsaw Pact
1991 August: Unsuccessful coup d'etat in the Soviet Union
1991 December: Soviet Union dissolved
1945: The Gouzenko Affair in Canada
1948 June - 1949 May: The Berlin Blockade
1948 June - 1949 September: The Berlin Airlift
1949: NATO formed
1950 - 1953: The Korean War
1954 - 1975: The Vietnam War
1955: The founding of the Warsaw Pact
1956: The Suez Crisis
1957: Launching of the first artificial satellite by the Soviet Union
1957: Canada and the United States create NORAD
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: Assassination of President Kennedy
1964: Civil War breaks out in Cyprus; Canadian troops sent to maintain peace
1968: The United States, Soviet Union, and Britain sign the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Treaty
1970's: Détente between the opposing superpowers
1971: Recognition of the communist government as the official government of China
1972: SALT I signed between the United States and the Soviet Union
1973: the Yom Kippur War
1975: The Helsinki Accords were agreed upon by the United States, Canada, the Soviet Union, and various other European nations
1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, end of détente
1988: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
1989: A series of anti - communist revolutions in Eastern Europe; collapse of Warsaw Pact
1991 August: Unsuccessful coup d'etat in the Soviet Union
1991 December: Soviet Union dissolved