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Cold War Pictorial Timeline

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    Yalta Conference

    Agreement to divide Germany
  • First Atomic Bomb

    First Atomic Bomb

    The first atomic bomb was used by the US in Hiroshima, Japan.

  • V-J Day

    The Japanese finally surrender to the United States after two atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech.

  • Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan is announced
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

  • USSR atomic bomb

    USSR atomic bomb

    The USSR successfully exploded their first atomic bomb.
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    NATO

    NATO is ratified
  • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    Mao Zedong takes control of China

  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy

    McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The start of the Korean War
  • Rosenburg Executions

    Rosenburg Executions

  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The end of the Korean War.
  • Vietnam split at the 17th parallel

    Vietnam split at the 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact was formed by the Communist Nations, in response to NATO
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    the satelitte Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union.
  • Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba

    Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba

  • John F. Kennedy is elected president

    John F. Kennedy is elected president

  • U-2 spy plane incident

    U-2 spy plane incident

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The construction of the Berlin wall begins
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Southern Vietnam falls to Communism

    Southern Vietnam falls to Communism

  • the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union

  • End of Cold War

    End of Cold War

    Russia and the United States sit down and sign a formal end to the Cold War.