Cold War By christina.lynn Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Dec 3, 1990 The Cold War Mar 4, 1945 Yalta Conference May 8, 1945 WW2 Ends Jul 17, 1945 Postdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima Jan 19, 1946 Communists take over Poland Mar 12, 1946 Truman Doctrine Announced Apr 4, 1949 NATO Established Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Union Explodes Its First Atomic Bomb Oct 1, 1949 Communnists Win Chinese Civil War Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Ends May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Launches First Man-made Satellite Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro Become Prime Minister of Cuba Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion on Cuba Aug 13, 1961 East Germany Beins Construction on Berlin Wall Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall falls May 18, 1990 George Bush Agrees to Reunificatiokn of Germany in 1994 Dec 3, 1990 End of Cold War Dec 26, 1990 Soviet Union Abolished
