2. 1970S
• April 1970: U.S President extends Vietnam War to
Cambodia.
• July 1971: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I signed.
• January 1973: Ceasefire in Vietnam between North
Vietnam and the United States
• March 1973: Last sizeable U.S military unites depart South
Vietnam
• October 1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel. Egypt
requests Soviet Aid.
3. 1970s continued…
• 1973: End of the U.S military draft
• 1974: First female soldier joins 3AD
• August 1974: President Nixon resigns
• April 1975: Saigon falls to North: South Vietnam no
longer exists
• 1979: SALT II signed
4. 1980S
• Nov.1980: Ronald Reagan elected.
• 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in USSR.
•
• 1986: Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites.
•
• Oct. 1986: Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove
all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
• Oct. 1987: Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all
medium and short-ranged missiles from Europe by
signing a treaty
5. 1980s continued…
• 1989: Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
• June 1989: China puts down protests for democracy
•
• Sept. 1989: Hungary becomes independent.
• Nov. 1989: Berlin wall falls.
• Dec. 1989: Communist government falls in
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania.
6. 1990S
• March 1990: Lithuania becomes independent
• Oct 1990: West and East Germany unite
• April 1991: Warsaw pact ends
• Aug. 1991: USSR dissolves, and the Cold War ends.
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• "A Concise Time-Line of the Cold War 1945-
1992." 3AD. N.p., 2012. Web. 28 May 2012.
<http://www.3ad.com/history/cold.war/timeline
.cold.war.htm>.
