Cold War By mloube Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 15, 1945 Japanese Surrender Mar 5, 1946 "Iron Curtain" Speech Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949 Berlin Blockade/ Airlift Jan 1, 1949 Comecon Created Apr 4, 1949 NATO Established Oct 1, 1949 China Becomes Communist Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Jan 1, 1954 Vietnam is Divided Mar 13, 1954 KGB Established Apr 7, 1954 DOmino Theory May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Established Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Oct 1, 1956 Suez Crisis Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Jan 1, 1959 Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba May 1, 1960 U2 Spy Plane Shot Down Apr 12, 1961 First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin) Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs May 5, 1961 First American in Space (Alan Shepard) Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Built Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile crisis Period: Aug 2, 1964 to Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident/ Resolution Period: Jun 5, 1967 to Jun 10, 1967 Six Day War Jan 30, 1968 Tet Offensive Jul 24, 1969 Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon Oct 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War Jan 1, 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution Nov 4, 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis Mar 1, 1985 Glasnost Mar 1, 1985 Perestroika Aug 20, 1985 Iran-Contra Affair Mar 9, 1989 Poland Becomes Independent Apr 15, 1989 Tiananmen Square Oct 7, 1989 Hungary Becomes Independent Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls Jan 1, 1990 Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria Fall Oct 3, 1990 Germany Reunites Jan 1, 1991 Boris Yeltsin Elected President of Russia Mar 3, 1991 Warsaw Pact Ends Dec 26, 1991 USSR Dissolved