Cold War Timeline

Nick Lottsfeldt
Mr. Casteel
English Cp 3
Period 0
3 December 2013

Cold War Time Line

February 4-11, 1945: The Cold War Begins do to the Yalta Conference.  Decisions made at the conference angered the Soviets and Stalin because most of the decisions favored the United States And England.

August 6th, 1945: The United States uses the first ever Atomic Bomb on Japan. The power of the bomb proves to be devastating and increases the nuclear arms raise between the U.S and The Soviet Union.

August 14th, 1945: Japan surrenders marking the end of WW2.  This ultimately ends the short lived "alliance" between the U.S and Soviet Union.  

September 1949: Russia drops their first atomic bomb.  This signifies nuclear advancement and now the possibility of a nuclear war between the U.S and Russia.

February 1950: Senator Joe McCarthy starts a communist hunt in the U.S similar to the witch hunts in Salem.  People were falsely accused  of being communist and many were wither jailed or disappeared for ending accusations. 

October 4th, 1957: The first satellite ever is launched in to space by the Soviets.  The satellite cause panic in the U.S because Russia now had space control with Sputnik.

November 1960: John F. Kennedy is elected president who is possibly the most popular president in American History.  However, within his presidency nuclear war almost occurred because of the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. 

November 1985: A new leader named Gorbachev is elected to lead the Soviet Union.  He eventually cuts all aid to the Satellite research economically. 

December 1989: Communism fails in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania.

August 1991:  Marks the end the Cold War. 






I got all my research and dates from http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm