cold war timeline By josh000 May 8, 1945 VE day victory in europre.germany surrenders Aug 6, 1945 the us drops a atomic bomb on hiroshima (20 kiloton bombs 'little boy' kills 80,000 Aug 9, 1945 August 9,1945: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills Period: Nov 14, 1945 to Nov 14, 1991 cold war Jul 11, 1946 July 1,1946: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal May 12, 1953 truman doctraine truman declares active role in greek cilvil war Nov 14, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion US invaded cuba Jul 14, 1963 nuclear treaty aproved create Jul 14, 1963 200,000 to vietnam Apr 1, 1965 U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism Jul 10, 1965 Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam Jan 11, 1968 North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 lands on the moon Aug 11, 1974 1974: August : President Nixon resigns Apr 17, 1975 April 17,1975 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces Aug 11, 1980 August,1980: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity Oct 11, 1983 1983: October : U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada Oct 11, 1986 October,1986 : President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe Jan 11, 1989 January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan Jan 11, 1989 January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan Aug 11, 1991 August,1991 : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
