Cold War Timeline By Tommyle Feb 4, 1945 Yalta conference Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Aug 15, 1991 Cold war start to finish Mar 5, 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain speech Jan 19, 1947 Communists seize power in Poland but there still is resistance Feb 9, 1950 Senator starts Communist witch hunts(anti communism) Jul 27, 1953 Armistic agreement stop fighting in Korea Oct 4, 1957 Soviets launch first man-made Satellite Jan 8, 1959 Cuba becomes Communist Oct 16, 1964 China explodes their first atomic bomb Apr 24, 1965 U.S. Send troops to Dominican republic Dec 18, 1972 Bombing Campaign for Vietnam by Nixon Dec 24, 1979 Red army Invades Afghanistan Oct 25, 1983 U.S. Invade Grenada Jan 18, 1989 Solidarity forms first postwar non-communist govt. in Poland Nov 9, 1989 Berlin wall Falls Dec 26, 1991 Soviet union abolished
