The Cold War By swimstar21 Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Agreement to temporarily divide Germany Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb United States first used the atomic bomb in war Aug 14, 1945 Japanese Surrender VJ Day Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchill Speech Speech about the Iron Curtain Jun 1, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jul 1, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 1, 1949 Mao Zedong takes control of China Sep 1, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Feb 1, 1950 Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts Jun 12, 1950 Korean War Jun 19, 1953 Rosenberg Couple Executions Jul 1, 1953 Korean War Ends Jul 1, 1954 Vietnam Spilts Spilts at 17th Parallel May 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik is launched Jan 1, 1959 Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 Spy Plane caught by USSR Nov 1, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected President Apr 1, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 1, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall begins Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Apr 1, 1975 Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 1, 1989 USSR falls Oct 1, 1990 Germany reunited Aug 1, 1991 US and USSR end Cold War
