Cold War By Cotton13 Feb 10, 1944 Yalta Conference Period: Feb 10, 1944 to Aug 10, 1991 Cold War - Alec Cotton Aug 6, 1945 United States first used atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 Japanese surrender (V-J Day) Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech Jun 10, 1947 Marshall Plan is announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade begins Jul 10, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 10, 1949 Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 11, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Feb 10, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt Jun 10, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg executions Jul 10, 1953 Korean War ends Feb 10, 1954 Vietnam split at 17th parallel May 10, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launched Jan 10, 1959 Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro May 10, 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR Nov 10, 1960 John F Kennedy elected President Apr 10, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 10, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall begins Oct 10, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Apr 10, 1975 Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism Nov 10, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 10, 1989 Soviet empire falls Oct 10, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 10, 1991 U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War
