Cold war in europe

Cold war timeline

, 1945 Defeat of Germany and
Japan
• February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
• Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins
• May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
• July: Potsdam Conference - Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupat
• August 6: The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little B
kills 80,000)

,1945 Defeat of Germany and
Japan cont.…
• August 8: Russia declares war on Japan
• August 9: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22
kiloton 'Fat Man' kills
• 70,000)
• August 14 : Japanese surrender End of World War II
• August 15: Emperor surrender broadcast - VJ Day

, 1946
• February 9: Stalin hostile speech - communism & capitalism were
incompatible
• March 5 : "Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill -
"an "iron curtain"
• has descended on Europe"
• March 10: Truman demands Russia leave Iran
• July 1: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public
demonstration of
• America's atomic arsenal
• July 25: America's Test Baker - underwater explosion