Coldwar By Darklord1 Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1953 Early cold war Feb 7, 1945 Yalta conference Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped on japan Mar 12, 1947 Truman doctrine Sep 2, 1947 Rio pact Mar 2, 1948 Truman's Loyalty Program Apr 1, 1948 Berlin Blockade Apr 8, 1948 Marshal plan Mar 17, 1949 Brussels pact Apr 4, 1949 nato ratified Aug 29, 1949 Soviet First atomic bomb test Oct 1, 1949 Communist peoples republic of china created Apr 1, 1950 Federal civil defence admin established Jun 25, 1950 Korean war Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Jan 1, 1974 Middle cold war Mar 5, 1953 Stalins death Mar 1, 1954 KGB established Jul 1, 1954 Vietnam split at 17th parallel May 14, 1955 warsaw pact Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam war begins Oct 29, 1956 Suez crisis Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik lauched Jan 1, 1959 Fidel Castro takes over cuba May 1, 1960 soviet shoots down US spy plane over Soviet territory Apr 17, 1961 Bay of pigs invasion Aug 13, 1961 Berlin wall begins construction Oct 1, 1962 cuban missle crisis Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear test ban treaty Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 land on moon Jan 1, 1971 pentagon papers May 26, 1972 salt 1 signed Period: Jan 1, 1974 to Jan 1, 1991 Coldwars end Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam falls to commusist Feb 1, 1976 Soviet and Cuban forces help to install Communist government in Angola. Jan 1, 1979 US-China establish diplomatic relations Jul 1, 1979 SALT II signed Nov 4, 1979 Iranian hostage crisis Dec 1, 1979 soviets invade Afganistan Jan 1, 1981 Powers remove all short/long range nuclear missles Jan 1, 1985 Garbachev controls soviet union Jan 1, 1986 Powers remove nuclear missles from Europe Jan 1, 1989 countries break out of Soviet union Jan 1, 1989 Berlin wall falls Jan 1, 1989 Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan Jan 1, 1990 Decline Soviet union May 19, 1990 Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia Oct 3, 1990 Germany unites Jan 1, 1991 end of soviet union Apr 24, 2017 Salt 1 signed