Cold war By facebooker_100000528722221 Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1998 Cold War Feb 1, 1945 Yalta Confrence Aug 6, 1945 United states First used Atomic Bomb Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day Mar 1, 1946 Churchill delivers Iron Curtain Speach Jun 1, 1947 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jul 1, 1949 NATO ratified Sep 1, 1949 Communist Mao Zedong Takes Control Of China Sep 1, 1949 USSR explodes first atomic bomb Feb 1, 1950 McCarthy begings Communist witch Hunt Jun 1, 1950 Korean War Begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenburg Executions Jul 1, 1953 Korean War ends Jul 1, 1954 Vietnam Splits at the 17th parallel May 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik Launched Jan 1, 1959 Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR Nov 1, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected President Apr 1, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Aug 1, 1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1, 1975 South Vietnam Falls to Communism Nov 1, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Dec 1, 1989 Soviet Empire Falls Oct 1, 1990 Germany Reunited Aug 1, 1992 US and Russia sign formal agreement to end the Cold War
