Cold War By MaxPerella Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Aug 6, 1945 United States first used atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech Jun 4, 1947 Marshall Plan is announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade begins Jul 4, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 1, 1949 Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 3, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Feb 14, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins communist witch hunt Jun 25, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg executions Jul 27, 1953 Korean War ends Jul 1, 1954 Vietnam splits at 17th parallel May 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact forms Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launched Jan 2, 1959 communist Fidel Castro takes over Cuba May 1, 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR Nov 8, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected president Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion Aug 13, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall starts Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Apr 30, 1975 Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 25, 1989 soviet Empire falls Oct 1, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 3, 1991 U.S. and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
