To fill every President row from Truman to Bush with a Cold War event and its Soviet counterpart, we can provide examples for each president during that time period:
1. Harry S. Truman:
- Cold War event: Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
- Soviet counterpart: Blockade of Berlin
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower:
- Cold War event: Cuban Revolution (1959)
- Soviet counterpart: Soviet support for Fidel Castro
3. John F. Kennedy:
- Cold War event: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Soviet counterpart: Soviet deployment of missiles in Cuba
4. Lyndon B. Johnson:
- Cold War event: Vietnam War (1955-1975)
- Soviet counterpart: Support for North Vietnam
5. Richard Nixon:
- Cold War event: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I, 1972)
- Soviet counterpart: Negotiations led by Leonid Brezhnev
6. Gerald Ford:
- Cold War event: Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Soviet counterpart: Signing by Brezhnev
7. Jimmy Carter:
- Cold War event: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
- Soviet counterpart: Military intervention under Brezhnev
8. Ronald Reagan:
- Cold War event: Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, 1983)
- Soviet counterpart: Response with military buildup
9. George H. W. Bush:
- Cold War event: Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Soviet counterpart: Policies of Mikhail Gorbachev
These examples provide a snapshot of significant Cold War events and their Soviet counterparts during the presidencies of Truman through Bush.
