IB History - Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries (20th Century) Key Dates

IB History - Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries (20th Century) Key Dates Yalta Conference (decided that Germany was to be temporarily divide into four zones, the Allied Control Commission (ACC) would run Germany, Germany would pay $20bn in reparations - 50% to USSR) - ANS February 1945 Germany surrenders - ANS 1945 Potsdam Conference (decided that the partition of Germany - and Austria - was confirmed, German economy kept weak, Germans in Eastern Europe to be repatriated, establishment of the US confirmed) - ANS July 17 - August 2 1945 Nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - ANS 1945 Japan surrenders - ANS 1945 Kennan's Telegram (argued that the USSR was convinced that the USA was a hostile threat and the USSR was determined to spread Stalinist ideology) - ANS 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (referred to Soviet dominated governments in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria and the potential spread of communism to East Germany and Czechoslovakia) - ANS 1946 Announcement of the Truman Doctrine (initiated the policy of 'containment' of communism, military intervention and financial aid used to contain communism) - ANS 1947