Cold War

By carr0604
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    Cold War

  • Cold War Begins

  • United States first used atomic bomb

  • Russia enters war against Japan

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Marshall Plan is announced

  • communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • NATO ratified

  • Soviets explode first atomic bomb

  • Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • Rosenberg executions

  • Korean War ends

  • vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back

  • sputnik launched into orbit

  • cube taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • Berlin border closed