Cold War Timeline

When was the Marshall Plan introduced?

• 1945

• 1949

• 1947

• 1950

What year did the USSR build their own atomic bomb

• 1949

• 1947

• 1957

• 1953

When did the USSR's sputnik launch?

• 1948

• 1952

• 1961

• 1957

When did the United States launch their own satellite, Explorer 1

• 1950

• 1960

• 1958

• 1949

What year was the first man launched into space?

• 1961

• 1959

• 1963

• 1965

What year did Soviet-backed North Korean forces invade its pro- Western neighbor of the South

• 1955

• 1945

• 1950

• 1952

When was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• October, 1967

• October, 1962

• November, 1962

• November, 1967

When was NATO and the Warsaw Pact created?

• 1950

• 1960

• 1965

• 1955

When was Berlin divided?

• 1945

• 1950

• 1942

• 1955

When was the Berlin Wall built?

• 1958

• 1961

• 1969

• 1970