coldwar timeline By shuo123 Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta conference Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945 Potsdam conference Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima bombing Aug 9, 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki 1947 Molotov plan Period: 1947 to 1952 Marshall plan Mar 12, 1947 Tuman doctrine Mar 17, 1948 Brussels Treaty Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 Berlin Block aid Apr 4, 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Mar 5, 1953 Stalin's death Period: May 14, 1955 to 1991 Warsaw pact Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Period: Oct 23, 1956 to Nov 11, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Sep 12, 1957 NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command) Feb 16, 1959 Fidel Castro taking over Period: Apr 17, 1961 to Apr 20, 1961 Bay of pigs Aug 12, 1961 Creation of the Berlin wall Oct 28, 1962 End of the Cuban Missile Crisis Period: Jan 15, 1968 to Aug 21, 1968 Czechoslovakia Revolution Mar 5, 1970 Nuclear Arms Treaties Period: Dec 24, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989 Afghanistan/Soviet war Aug 31, 1980 Solidarity in Poland Nov 9, 1989 Berlin wall falling Dec 1, 1989 End of Cold war