Cold War Timeline By jwatson63 Feb 10, 1945 Yalta conference Aug 6, 1945 United States uses atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 VJ day Mar 10, 1946 Winson Chruchill iron curtain speech Jun 1, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jul 1, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 10, 1949 Mao Zedong contorls china Sep 10, 1949 USSR test atom bomb Feb 10, 1950 McCarthy begans communist hunt Jun 10, 1950 Korean war begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg executions Jul 10, 1953 Korean war ends Jul 10, 1954 Vietnam splits May 10, 1955 Warsaw Pact Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Jan 10, 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba May 10, 1960 U 2 Spy plane shot down Nov 10, 1960 JFK elected Apr 10, 1961 Bay of Pigs Aug 10, 1961 Berlin wall begins Oct 10, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Apr 10, 1975 South Vietnam falls to communism Nov 10, 1989 Berlin wall falls Dec 10, 1989 Soviet empire falls Oct 10, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 10, 1991 End of cold war
