Cold War Events By casey.bradford Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Nagasaki Bombing Aug 9, 1945 Hiroshima Bombing 1947 Molotov Plan Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Mar 17, 1948 Brussels Treaty Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 Berlin Blockade Apr 4, 1949 NATO Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Creation of Nuclear Weapons Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's Death Period: May 14, 1955 to Jul 1, 1991 Warsaw Pact Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Period: Oct 23, 1956 to Nov 10, 1956 Hungarian Revolution May 12, 1958 NORAD Jan 1, 1959 Fidel Castro Takeover Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 13, 1961 Creation of the Berlin Wall Oct 28, 1962 End of Cuban Missile Crisis Jul 1, 1968 Nuclear Arms Treaties Period: Dec 25, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989 Afghanistan/Soviet War Period: 1980 to 1989 Solidarity in Poland 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Period: Nov 17, 1989 to Dec 29, 1989 Czechoslovakia Revolution 1991 End of the Cold War