Cold War Timeline

By Jessica_Ulloa19

  • Yalta Conference

  • Japanese surrender to end WWII

  • Churchill Iron Curtain Speech

  • Marshall Plan

  • Communist take over Czechoslovakia

  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade

  • Soviets explode first Atomic bomb

  • Communist takes over China

    Mao Zedong, the communist

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist WITCH HUNT

  • Period: to

    Korean war

  • Stalin Dies

  • Korean war ends

  • KGB established

  • Vietnam Split tat 17th Parallel

  • Warsaw pact formed

  • Sputnik launched

  • Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

  • JFK Elected

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Construction of Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK assasinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin accident

  • U.S. troops sent to Vietnam

  • Salt 1 signed

  • Cease Fire in Vietnam

  • Nixon Resigns

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam

  • Period: to

    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Mikhail Gorbachev power in the Soviet Union

    Mikhail ascend to power in the Soviet Union

  • Tiananmen Square :Beijing

    China puts down protest for democracy

  • Soviet Empire ends

    Communist governments fall in Poland, East Germany,Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania.