The document provides a timeline of key events from 1970 to 1991 during the Cold War period. It outlines major military and political developments each decade, including the Vietnam War ceasefire in 1973, Reagan's election in 1980, Gorbachev coming to power in 1985 and pursuing reforms, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in 1991 marking the official end of the Cold War.

1. COLD WAR TIMELINE
1970-1991
BY MASHAAL ZAHID

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>.