Cold War events By reboucher Jan 1, 1945 American Bombing Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 2000 Cold war Jun 26, 1945 UN was created Jan 1, 1946 Iron Curtin Jan 1, 1947 Independant India partitioned into India and Pakistan Jan 1, 1949 Communists take control of China Jan 1, 1949 Soviet explodes nuclear weapons Jan 1, 1949 NATO Jan 1, 1950 Themonuclear weapon was approved Jan 1, 1952 H bomb America Jan 1, 1953 H bomb Soviet Union Jan 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact Jan 1, 1957 Ganah achieves indenendance GB Oct 4, 1957 Soviet launch Spitnik Dec 31, 1959 Cuba becomes communist Feb 14, 1969 US lands Astronauts on the moon Oct 6, 1973 Arab forces attack Isreal in the Yom Kippur war Dec 8, 1975 Vietnam war ends Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall comes down Jan 1, 1990 Communists vote out power in Nicaragua Apr 26, 1994 First all race election is held in South Africa Jan 1, 2000 North and South Korea meet to talk about relations
