Summary Edexcel GCSE History 9-1: Superpower relations and the Cold War TIMELINE

Superpowers Relations Timeline

• 1940
- Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) conquered by Soviet Union
• 1941
- June - Hitler attacks the Soviet Union, which allies with Britain and USA
• 1943
- November - Tehran Conference
• 1944
- Warsaw Uprising
- USSR took control of Bulgaria and Romania
• 1945
- February - Yalta Conference
- April - Roosevelt dies and is replace by Truman
- First meeting of the UN
- May - VE Day (Germany surrendered)
- July - Potsdam Conference
- Churchill defeated in election and replaced with Attlee
- Atomic bomb successfully tested
- August - Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs dropped
• 1946
- February - Kennan’s Long Telegram
- March - Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
- September - Novikov Telegram
• 1947
- January - Communist government elected in Poland in “free elections”
- March - Truman Doctrine announced
- June - Marshall Aid plan announced
- September - First Cominform meeting
- Communist Hungarian government elected after voters were intimidated
- British Government announced that it could not provide military support
to the Greek Government to fight Communist guerrillas
- Bizonia created as Britain and USA merge their parts of Germany
• 1948
- February - Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
- March - Talks between the foreign ministers of the occupying powers of
Germany broke down and Soviets stormed out
- Trizonia created as France’s section joins Bizonia
- June - Berlin Blockade set up
- Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
- Deutschmark created as a currency for Trizonia
• 1949
- January - Comecon established