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Period: to
Cold War
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Yalta Confrence
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United states First used Atomic Bomb
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V-J Day
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Churchill delivers Iron Curtain Speach
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade
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NATO ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong Takes Control Of China
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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McCarthy begings Communist witch Hunt
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Korean War Begins
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Rosenburg Executions
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam Splits at the 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Sputnik Launched
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Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro
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U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Construction of the Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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South Vietnam Falls to Communism
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Berlin Wall falls
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Soviet Empire Falls
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Germany Reunited
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US and Russia sign formal agreement to end the Cold War