Cold War By crinehart7 Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Aug 6, 1945 First Used Bomb In A Atomic War- U.S Aug 14, 1945 Japan Surrenders to U.S Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchil " Iron curtain speech" Jun 14, 1947 Marshall Plan Is Announced Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade Begins Jul 14, 1949 NATO is Ratified Aug 9, 1949 USSR tests first Atomic Bomb Sep 19, 1949 Zedong Takes Control of China Feb 9, 1950 McCarthy begins communist witch-hunt Jun 25, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1953 Rosenburg Executions Jul 25, 1953 Korean War Ends Jul 19, 1954 Vietnam split at 17th Paralell May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Formed Oct 4, 1957 sputnik Launched Jan 19, 1959 cuba taken over by fidel Castro May 1, 1960 U2 spy plane shot down Nov 19, 1960 John f. Kennedy elected President Apr 19, 1961 bay of Pigs Aug 19, 1961 Construction of berlin Wall Begins Oct 17, 1962 Cuban Missle crisis Apr 19, 1975 South Vietnam Falls to Communism Nov 9, 1984 Berlin wall falls Dec 19, 1989 Soviet Empire Falls Oct 19, 1990 Germany Reunited Aug 14, 1992 U.S and USSR sigh formal agreement to end Cold War
