Cold War

By Rachael stevens
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

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    Cold War

  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb

    United States first uses this bomb in war
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    Japanese Surrender
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan is announced
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO ratified

    NATO ratified

  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong

    Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
  • USSR explodes 1st Atomic Bomb

    USSR explodes 1st Atomic Bomb

  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt

  • Korean War Begins

  • Rosenburg Executions

    Rosenburg Executions

  • Korean War ends

  • Vietnam splits at 17th parallel

    Vietnam splits at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Sputnik launched

    Sputnik launched

  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    Communist Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
  • U-2 Spy Plane shot down in USSR

    U-2 Spy Plane shot down in USSR

  • John F. Kennedy elected president

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Berlin Wall is created

    Berlin Wall is created

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • Soviet Empire falls

    Soviet Empire falls

  • Cold War ends

    Cold War ends

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

  • Germany Reunited

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