The Cold War

By swimstar21
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
  • Atomic Bomb

    Atomic Bomb

    United States first used the atomic bomb in war
  • Japanese Surrender

    Japanese Surrender

    VJ Day
  • Winston Churchill Speech

    Winston Churchill Speech

    Speech about the Iron Curtain
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO ratified

    NATO ratified

  • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    Mao Zedong takes control of China

  • USSR explodes first atomic bomb

    USSR explodes first atomic bomb

  • Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts

    Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts

  • Korean War

    Korean War

  • Rosenberg Couple Executions

    Rosenberg Couple Executions

  • Korean War Ends

    Korean War Ends

  • Vietnam Spilts

    Vietnam Spilts

    Spilts at 17th Parallel
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

  • Sputnik is launched

    Sputnik is launched

  • Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro

    Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro

  • U-2 Spy Plane caught by USSR

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • USSR falls

  • Germany reunited

  • US and USSR end Cold War

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