Cold War Timeline

By aliciaroe

  • Yalta Conference/Agreement to temporarily divide Germany

    Yalta Conference/Agreement to temporarily divide Germany

  • United States first used atomic bomb in war

    United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • Japanese Surrender (V-J Day)

    Japanese Surrender (V-J Day)

  • Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech

    Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech

  • Marshall Plan is announced

    Marshall Plan is announced

  • Berlin Blockade Begins

    Berlin Blockade Begins

  • NATO is ratified

    NATO is ratified

  • USSR explodes first atomic bomb

    USSR explodes first atomic bomb

  • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    Mao Zedong takes control of China

  • Joseph McCarthy begins Communist with-hunt

    Joseph McCarthy begins Communist with-hunt

  • Korean War begins

    Korean War begins

  • Rosenburg executions

  • Korean War ends

    Korean War ends

  • Vietnam splits at 17th parallel

    Vietnam splits at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Sputnik launched

  • Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

    Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

  • John F. Kennedy elected president

    John F. Kennedy elected president

  • U-2 Spy plane shot down over USSR

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Construction of Berlkin Wall begins

    Construction of Berlkin Wall begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism

    Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism

  • Berlin Wall falls

    Berlin Wall falls

  • Soviet Empire falls

    Soviet Empire falls

  • Germany reunited

    Germany reunited

  • U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War

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