Cold War By JordanRidley Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Aug 10, 1945 Arms Race Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctirane Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 4, 1949 Forming of Nato Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Jun 27, 1950 North Korea Declares War Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Death Mar 20, 1953 Nakita Khrushchev comes to power May 14, 1955 Forming of Warsaw Pact Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Veitnam War Oct 4, 1957 Space Race Jan 31, 1958 Explorer I launched Jan 13, 1959 Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 Incident Nov 8, 1960 JFK elected President of the USA Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall start Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK assasination Jul 20, 1969 First Man on the Moon Apr 19, 1975 North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces Dec 24, 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Mar 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power Dec 8, 1987 INF Treaty Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall Destroyed Oct 3, 1990 German re-unification Dec 25, 1991 U.S.S.R. Breakup
