Cold War By enzoferrari1226 Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conferance Agreement to temperarily divide Germany Aug 6, 1945 United States first used the A - bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 Japanese Surrender WWII Mar 5, 1946 winston Churchill gives "Iron Curtain" speech Jun 23, 1947 Marshall Plan Announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade began Apr 4, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 21, 1949 Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 22, 1949 USSR explodes their first A - Bomb Feb 9, 1950 joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch - hunt Jun 25, 1950 korean War Begins Jun 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed Jul 27, 1953 Korean War ends Jul 21, 1954 Vietnam splits at the 17th parallel May 14, 1955 Warsaw pact was formed Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launched Jan 3, 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba May 1, 1960 U2 spy plane was shot down over USSR Nov 8, 1960 JFK elected president Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall construction begins Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Apr 30, 1975 Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 2, 1989 USSR falls Oct 3, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 8, 1992 US and Russia sign a formal end to the Cold War
