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Cold War

By AdelaDok
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
  • US Atomic bomb

    US Atomic bomb

    Used by USA at the first time
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    Japanese surrender
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill delivers speech
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Announcing this plan to help the European recovery
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    One of the first major international crises of the Cold War
  • NATO

    NATO

    NATO ratified
  • Mao Zedong in China

    Mao Zedong in China

    Comunist Mao Zedong takes control of China

  • Atomic bomb USSR

    USSR explodes first atomic bomb
  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt

  • Korean War begins

  • Rosenberg executions

    Rosenberg executions

  • Korean War ends

  • Vietnam split at 17th parallel

    Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

    Warsaw Pact formed

  • Sputnik launched

    Sputnik launched

  • Fidel Castro in Cuba

    Fidel Castro in Cuba

    Cuba taken over bz Communist Fidel Castro
  • U-2 spy plane

    U-2 spy plane

    U-2 shot down over USSR
  • John F. Kennedy elected president

    John F. Kennedy elected president

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Berlin Walls

    Construction begins
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • South Vietnam into communism

    Signol, South Vietnam falls to communism
  • Berlin wall falls

    Berlin wall falls

  • Soviet empire falls

  • Germany reunited

    Germany reunited

  • The end of the Cold War

    The end of the Cold War

    U.S. and Russia sign formal end of the Cold War