Cold War Timeline By JakeDillon Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Agreement to tempararily divide Germany Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Aug 1, 1990 Cold War Aug 6, 1945 United States first used A-Bomb Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day Mar 5, 1946 Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade begins Jul 21, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 14, 1949 Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 19, 1949 USSR explodes 1st A-Bomb Feb 1, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins attack on Communism Jun 1, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1950 Rosenberg executions Jul 1, 1953 Korean War ends May 19, 1954 Warsaw Pact formed Jul 19, 1954 Vietnam split at 17th parallel Oct 4, 1954 Sputnik launched Jan 19, 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba May 19, 1959 U-2 plane shot down in USSR Apr 19, 1960 Bay of Pigs invasion Nov 19, 1960 John F. Kenndy elected president Aug 19, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall begins Oct 20, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Apr 20, 1975 Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism Nov 20, 1975 Berlin Wall falls Dec 20, 1989 Soviet Empire falls Aug 20, 1990 U.S. and Russia end Cold War Oct 20, 1990 Germany reunited
