Cold War timeline

By Neida Macias

  • Cold War

  • • 1945: World War II Ends and the Cold War Begins

  • • March 1946: Winston Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain Speech

  • • May 1948: US and Britain break the Soviet blockade of West Berlin with the Berlin Airlift

  • • 1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed

  • • 1950 to 1953: Korean War

  • • 1954: Vietnam War Begins

  • • August 1961: Berlin Wall is Built

  • • October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

  • • 1974: Vietnam War is over

  • • November 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • • October 1990: Germany is reunited

  • • December 1991: Soviet Union Collapses (Establishment of the Russian Federation)

  • • 1955: Warsaw Pact is formed

  • • 1961: US is defeated and humiliated at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba