Cold War By 17scheke Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Conference May 1, 1945 World War II ends in Europe Aug 1, 1945 Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Jan 1, 1946 First East European Communist Government Mar 1, 1947 Communist Seize Power Mar 1, 1947 Truman Doctrine Jun 1, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 1, 1949 NATO Oct 1, 1949 Communist win Chinese Civil War Jun 1, 1950 U.S. and U.N. fight North Korea Jul 27, 1953 Korean War ends May 1, 1955 U.S. overthrows Iranian government Nov 1, 1956 Red Army crushes Hungarian Revolution Oct 1, 1957 Soviet launches Sputnik Apr 1, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 1, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1, 1964 Chinese Atomic bomb Apr 1, 1965 U.S. sends troops to Dominican Republic Aug 1, 1968 Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising Feb 1, 1972 Richard Nixon visits China Apr 1, 1975 South Vietnam falls to Communist forces Dec 1, 1978 Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan Jan 1, 1979 U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations Aug 1, 1980 Solidarity Union formed Dec 1, 1983 U.S. invades Grenada Oct 1, 1989 Hungary declares a non-Communist government Nov 1, 1989 East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany Dec 1, 1989 Berlin Wall destroyed Dec 1, 1991 Soviet Union abolished
