Cold War

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Agreement to temperarily divide Germany. February 4-11, 1945

Little Boy

Aug 6, 1945

United States Set off the first atomic bomb in war

V-J Day

Aug 14, 1945

Japanese surrender

Iron Curtain

Mar 5, 1946

Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech

Marshall Plan

Jun 5, 1947

Marshall Plan is announced

Berlin Blockade

Jun 24, 1948

Berlin Blockade begins

NATO

Jul 1, 1949

NATO ratified

Mao Zedong

Sep 1, 1949

Communist takes control of China

USSR explodes first atomic bomb

Sep 1, 1949

USSR explodes first atomic bomb

Joseph McCarthy

Feb 19, 1950

Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

Korean War begins

Rosenburg

Jun 19, 1953

Rosenburg executions

Korean War ends

Jul 10, 1953

Korean War ends

Vietnam split

Jul 19, 1954

Vietnam split to the 17th parallel

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

Warsaw Pact formed

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik launched

Fidel Castro

Jan 26, 1959

Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro

U-2 Spy Plane

May 1, 1960

U-2 Spy Plane shot down over USSR

John F. Kennedy

Nov 8, 1960

John F. Kennedy elected President

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Bay of Pigs invasion

Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

construction of Berlin Wall

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 1, 1962

October 1-13 Cuban Missle Crisis

South Vietnam turns to communism

Apr 30, 1975

Saigon,South Vietnam turns to communism

Berlin Wall Falls

Nov 9, 1989

Berlin Wall falls

Soviet Empire Falls

Dec 25, 1989

Soviet Empire Falls

Germany Reunited

Oct 3, 1990

German reunited

End of Cld War

Aug 1, 1991

U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War