Cold War Timeline

Timeline created by ijohn419 in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
02/11/1945	Yalta Conference	Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
08/06/1945	United States first used atomic bomb in war
08/14/1945	V-J Day	Japanese surrender
03/07/1946	Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
06/01/1947	Marshall Plan announced
06/24/1948	Berlin Blockade begins
07/01/1949	NATO ratified
08/29/1949	U.S.S.R. explodes first atomic bomb
09/01/1949	Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
02/01/1950	Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt
06/01/1950	Korean War begins
06/19/1953	Rosenberg executions
07/01/1953	Korean War ends
07/01/1954	Vietnam split at 17th parallel
05/01/1955	Warsaw Pact formed
10/04/1957	Sputnik launched
01/01/1959	Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro
05/01/1960	U-2 spy plan shot down over U.S.S.R.
11/04/1960	John F. Kennedy elected President
04/01/1961	Bay of Pigs invasion
08/01/1961	Construction of Berlin Wall begins
10/01/1962	Cuban Missile Crisis
04/01/1975	Saigon (South Vietnam) falls to Communism
11/01/1989	Berlin Wall falls
12/01/1989	Soviet empire falls
10/01/1990	Germany reunited
08/01/1992	U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1945 to 12/31/1992	Duration of Cold War