1941
1940 June: Hitler attacks the Soviet Union,
which allies with britain and USA
1943
November: Tehran Conference -The USA and Britain would open up a second
front.
-Stalin would join the war against japan.
-Agreed the aim was to defeat germany and would
divide germany by giving poland a bit and giving
the ussr some of poland.
-started the idea of NATO.
Tension between USA and Britain
increases
The USSR refusing to give up satellite -The USSR freed many states and were reluctant
states caused a rise in tensions. to give them up.
1945
-Germany would be split into 4 zones (USA, Britain,
February: Yalta conference
the USSR, France).
-UN to be set up.
-Stalin agreed to join the war against japan.
-Decided in free elections.
-Poland would not be divided.
April: UN had their first meeting
Harry S. Truman took over America
Churchill replaced by Clement Attlee
May: VE Day -Germany surrendered.
July: Potsdam conference -Germany would be divided into 4 zones (USSR,
France, Britain, USA) but the German economy
would be run as a whole. Berlin would be divided in
the same way.
Tension between USA and USSR rises
August: USA drops atom bombs
Start of Arms war
1946
February: Kennan's long telegram
March: Churchills ‘iron curtain’ speech
September: Novikov telegram
USA and USSR tension rises
1947
January: Communist government
elected in poland
March: Truman doctrine announced
-Announce an economic aid package
June: Marshall Aid plan announced -Practical outcome of the Truman Doctrine
providing economic support to war torn countries.
Breakdown of any international relations.
September: First cominform meeting -A political organisation set up by stalin for all the
satellite states
1948
February: Communists seize power in -Stalin now had control over Czechoslovakia
, czechoslovakia
-France and Britain and America joined their zones
March: Trizona of germany together
June: Berlin blockade set up -Stalin shut off all land-routes across soviet
controlled germany. To prove a divided Germany
wouldn’t work.
Berlin Airlift -They flew supplies into Berlin as the soviets
couldn't shoot them down without it being seen as
an aggressive move.
1949
January: Comecon established -Stalin's reaction to the Marshall plan (his version of
it).
April: NATO formed -12 Western countries allied together.
May: Soviets lifted the blockade
September: Official founding of the -23 May trizonia became the Federal republic of
federal republic of germany. west germany.
-14 August Germans are allowed to elect their own
parliament.
-15 september The first democratic leader elected.
October: German democratic Republic -Stalin's response to The federal republic of
established germany.
May: Communist government elected in
hungary
Collapse in international relations
1950
1950
Start of the Arms Race
1952
November: The USA successfully tests
hydrogen bomb
1953
January: Eisenhower takes office as US
president
March: Stalin dies
August: The Soviet Union successfully
test hydrogen bomb
1955
May: The Warsaw Pact
1956
February: Krushchev, new leader of the
soviet union makes a speech criticising
stalin.
-July: Stalinist prime minister falls from power
November: Hungarian uprising -October: Protests against communist rule turn to
riots.
-24 october: Nagy becomes prime minister
-28 October: Soviet troops withdraw from Budapest
-3 November: Nagy announces hungary is leaving
the warsaw pact
-4 November: Soviet troops return.
Made the USSR and America look worse
1940 June: Hitler attacks the Soviet Union,
which allies with britain and USA
1943
November: Tehran Conference -The USA and Britain would open up a second
front.
-Stalin would join the war against japan.
-Agreed the aim was to defeat germany and would
divide germany by giving poland a bit and giving
the ussr some of poland.
-started the idea of NATO.
Tension between USA and Britain
increases
The USSR refusing to give up satellite -The USSR freed many states and were reluctant
states caused a rise in tensions. to give them up.
1945
-Germany would be split into 4 zones (USA, Britain,
February: Yalta conference
the USSR, France).
-UN to be set up.
-Stalin agreed to join the war against japan.
-Decided in free elections.
-Poland would not be divided.
April: UN had their first meeting
Harry S. Truman took over America
Churchill replaced by Clement Attlee
May: VE Day -Germany surrendered.
July: Potsdam conference -Germany would be divided into 4 zones (USSR,
France, Britain, USA) but the German economy
would be run as a whole. Berlin would be divided in
the same way.
Tension between USA and USSR rises
August: USA drops atom bombs
Start of Arms war
1946
February: Kennan's long telegram
March: Churchills ‘iron curtain’ speech
September: Novikov telegram
USA and USSR tension rises
1947
January: Communist government
elected in poland
March: Truman doctrine announced
-Announce an economic aid package
June: Marshall Aid plan announced -Practical outcome of the Truman Doctrine
providing economic support to war torn countries.
Breakdown of any international relations.
September: First cominform meeting -A political organisation set up by stalin for all the
satellite states
1948
February: Communists seize power in -Stalin now had control over Czechoslovakia
, czechoslovakia
-France and Britain and America joined their zones
March: Trizona of germany together
June: Berlin blockade set up -Stalin shut off all land-routes across soviet
controlled germany. To prove a divided Germany
wouldn’t work.
Berlin Airlift -They flew supplies into Berlin as the soviets
couldn't shoot them down without it being seen as
an aggressive move.
1949
January: Comecon established -Stalin's reaction to the Marshall plan (his version of
it).
April: NATO formed -12 Western countries allied together.
May: Soviets lifted the blockade
September: Official founding of the -23 May trizonia became the Federal republic of
federal republic of germany. west germany.
-14 August Germans are allowed to elect their own
parliament.
-15 september The first democratic leader elected.
October: German democratic Republic -Stalin's response to The federal republic of
established germany.
May: Communist government elected in
hungary
Collapse in international relations
1950
1950
Start of the Arms Race
1952
November: The USA successfully tests
hydrogen bomb
1953
January: Eisenhower takes office as US
president
March: Stalin dies
August: The Soviet Union successfully
test hydrogen bomb
1955
May: The Warsaw Pact
1956
February: Krushchev, new leader of the
soviet union makes a speech criticising
stalin.
-July: Stalinist prime minister falls from power
November: Hungarian uprising -October: Protests against communist rule turn to
riots.
-24 october: Nagy becomes prime minister
-28 October: Soviet troops withdraw from Budapest
-3 November: Nagy announces hungary is leaving
the warsaw pact
-4 November: Soviet troops return.
Made the USSR and America look worse
