Cold War By Bobalu Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Confrence Agreement to temporarily divide germany Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Aug 14, 1945 Jappanese surrender Mar 1, 1946 Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain Jun 1, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jul 1, 1949 NATO Sep 1, 1949 Mao Zedong takes Communist control of China Sep 1, 1949 USSR explodes atomic bomb Feb 1, 1950 McCarthy starts communist hunt Jun 1, 1950 Korean war begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg Executions Jul 1, 1953 Korean war ends Jul 1, 1954 Vietnam splits Mar 1, 1955 Warsaw pact formed Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launched Jan 1, 1959 Cuba taken over by communist Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down Nov 2, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected Apr 1, 1961 Bay of pigs invasion Aug 1, 1961 Berlin Wall construction begins Oct 1, 1962 Cuban missle crisis Apr 1, 1975 South Vietnam falls to communism Nov 1, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 1, 1989 Soviet Empire falls Oct 1, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 1, 1991 US and Russia sign official end to war
