Cold War Timeline By facebooker_1188268322 Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Aug 6, 1945 U.S.Uses First Atomic Bomb Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day Jun 10, 1947 Marshall Plan is Announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade begins Jul 10, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 10, 1949 Mao Zedong takes control of China Feb 10, 1950 Joe McCarthy begins his communist-search Jun 10, 1950 Korean War begins Jul 10, 1953 Korean War ends Jul 10, 1954 Vietnam split at 17th parallel May 12, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Incident Nov 12, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected President Apr 12, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Begins Oct 12, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Apr 10, 1975 South Vietnam falls to communism Nov 12, 1989 The Berlin Wall Falls Dec 10, 1989 Soviet Union falls Oct 10, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 16, 1991 U.S.A and Russia end Cold War Feb 12, 2012 Construction on Berlin Wall Begins
