Cold War timeline By Bferguson Feb 1, 1945 Yalta conference Jan 1, 1947 Communist seizing power in Poland Jun 2, 1948 Berlin airlift Apr 2, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Aug 2, 1949 Soviet Union drops first atomic bomb Sep 2, 1954 Creation of SEATO May 2, 1955 Warsaw pact Oct 2, 1957 Soviet first man-made satellite Feb 2, 1959 Fidel castro Aug 2, 1962 Berlin wall Oct 2, 1962 Cuban missle crisis Oct 2, 1964 China explodes it's first atomic bomb Apr 2, 1969 Bay of Pigs invade Cuba Feb 2, 1972 Richard Nixon visits China Dec 2, 1989 Tearing down the Berlin Wall
