COLD WAR IN EUROPE
1945 February The Yalta Agreement
May Germany surrendered from WWII (End of WWII in Europe)
June UNO formed
July Potsdam Conference
August USA dropping of atom bomb
Japan surrendered from WWII (End of WWII in the East)
Between 1945-1948 Stalin’s takeover of Eastern Europe and the creation of the satellite states
1946 March Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
1947 March Truman Doctrine (start of USA’s Policy of Containment)
June Marshall Plan
Stalin set up COMINFORM
1948 May Czechoslovakia fell into Communism
June Berlin Blockade
June 1948-May 1949 US Airlifted supplies into West Berlin
1949 Formation of COMECON
May Berlin Blockade lifted
Soviet Union had developed its own nuclear weapons
April Formation of NATO
Between 1949 & 1961 More and more people were moving from East to West Germany
1953 Stalin died
Khrushchev succeeded Stalin and introduced new policy of co-existence
Berlin Riots
1955 Warsaw Pact
1958-1959 Khrushchev’s demands
1960 May Shooting of U2 spy plane, led to Khrushchev cancelling meeting in Paris w/
Eisenhower to discuss Berlin
1961 June Summit meeting in Vienna between Khrushchev and President Kennedy
August Berlin Wall
1945 February The Yalta Agreement
May Germany surrendered from WWII (End of WWII in Europe)
June UNO formed
July Potsdam Conference
August USA dropping of atom bomb
Japan surrendered from WWII (End of WWII in the East)
Between 1945-1948 Stalin’s takeover of Eastern Europe and the creation of the satellite states
1946 March Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
1947 March Truman Doctrine (start of USA’s Policy of Containment)
June Marshall Plan
Stalin set up COMINFORM
1948 May Czechoslovakia fell into Communism
June Berlin Blockade
June 1948-May 1949 US Airlifted supplies into West Berlin
1949 Formation of COMECON
May Berlin Blockade lifted
Soviet Union had developed its own nuclear weapons
April Formation of NATO
Between 1949 & 1961 More and more people were moving from East to West Germany
1953 Stalin died
Khrushchev succeeded Stalin and introduced new policy of co-existence
Berlin Riots
1955 Warsaw Pact
1958-1959 Khrushchev’s demands
1960 May Shooting of U2 spy plane, led to Khrushchev cancelling meeting in Paris w/
Eisenhower to discuss Berlin
1961 June Summit meeting in Vienna between Khrushchev and President Kennedy
August Berlin Wall
