COLD WAR TIME LINE By jjhood Feb 7, 1945 YALTA CONFRENCE Period: Feb 8, 1945 to Aug 8, 1992 COLD WAR Aug 6, 1945 US first use atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 V-J DAY Mar 8, 1946 WInston Churchhill delivers IRON CURTAIN speech Jun 8, 1947 MARSHALL PLAN Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Feb 8, 1949 NATO ratified Feb 8, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Sep 8, 1949 Mao zedong takes over china Feb 8, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins Communist hunt in goverment Feb 8, 1950 Korean war begans Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg executions Jul 8, 1953 Korean war ends Feb 8, 1954 Vietnam splits at 17th Parallel Jul 8, 1955 WARSAW PACT formed Oct 4, 1957 sputnick is launched Feb 8, 1959 Fidel Castro takes over cuba with communinsim May 8, 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR Nov 8, 1960 JFK elected president of USA Apr 8, 1961 Bay of PIgs invasion Aug 8, 1961 construction of Berlin Wall begins Oct 8, 1962 cuba missile crisis Apr 8, 1975 south vietnam falls to communism Nov 8, 1989 berlin wall falls Dec 8, 1989 soviet empire falls Oct 8, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 8, 1992 U.S and Russia sign formal end to the cold war
