GCU 113 Cold War Timeline By acgarc14 Jan 1, 1937 Taxes collected for Social Security Sep 2, 1945 End of WWII Cease fire in Germany and the Pacific Oct 24, 1945 United Nations established Jan 1, 1947 national security act Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine Nov 1, 1948 presidential election Apr 4, 1949 creation of NATO Aug 29, 1949 USSR first atomic bomb Oct 1, 1949 People's Republic of China created Mar 6, 1951 red scare - julius and ethel rosenberg trial Jan 1, 1952 first hydrogen bomb Oct 1, 1956 Suez canal crisis Jul 29, 1958 Cretion of NASA Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missle crisis