Cold War Timeline

By jwatson63

  • Yalta conference

    Yalta conference

  • United States uses atomic bomb in war

    United States uses atomic bomb in war

  • VJ day

    VJ day

  • Winson Chruchill iron curtain speech

    Winson Chruchill iron curtain speech

  • Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO ratified

    NATO ratified

  • Mao Zedong contorls china

    Mao Zedong contorls china

  • USSR test atom bomb

    USSR test atom bomb

  • McCarthy begans communist hunt

    McCarthy begans communist hunt

  • Korean war begins

    Korean war begins

  • Rosenberg executions

    Rosenberg executions

  • Korean war ends

    Korean war ends

  • Vietnam splits

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

  • Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

    Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

  • U 2 Spy plane shot down

  • JFK elected

    JFK elected

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Berlin wall begins

    Berlin wall begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • South Vietnam falls to communism

  • Berlin wall falls

  • Soviet empire falls

  • Germany reunited

  • End of cold war