Cold War By Michael126 Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Confrence Period: Feb 1, 1945 to Aug 1, 1991 Cold War Aug 6, 1945 USA First used Atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 V-J day Mar 1, 1946 Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain Speech" Jun 1, 1947 Marshall Plan is announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Begins Jul 1, 1949 Nato ratified Sep 1, 1949 Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 2, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Feb 1, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins communist witch-hunt Jun 1, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1950 Rosenburg executions Jul 1, 1950 korean war ends Jul 2, 1954 Vietnam Split at 17th parallel May 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 over USSR Nov 1, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected president Apr 1, 1961 Bay of pigs invasion Apr 1, 1961 Construction of berlin wall begins Oct 1, 1962 Cuban missile crisis Oct 1, 1962 Saigon, south of Vietnam falls to communism Nov 20, 1989 Berlin wall falls Dec 1, 1989 soviet Empire falls Oct 1, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 1, 1991 U.S and Russia sign formal end to the cold war
