| 4.2.1945 - 11.2.1945 |
Roosvelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta. All agreed that Germany wound not be divided after the war, but remained in occupation zones (which included France) until it could be unified. Stalin promised to hold free elections in Poland and help out with Japan.
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| 12.4.1945 |
F.D.Roosvelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry S.Truman becomes president of USA
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| 8.5.1945 |
End of World War II in Europe
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| 17.6.1945 - 2.8.1945 |
USSR (Stalin, Molotov), USA (Truman, J.Byrnes) UK (Churchill/Atlee, A.Eden) meet in Potsdam.
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| 26.6.1945 |
Signing of the founding UN Charter in San Francisco by 51 states.
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| 6.8.1945 - 9.8.1945 |
A-bomb drops on Japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| 14.9.1945 |
Capitulation of Japan
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| 6.12.1945 |
US and UK agree at a lend of 3.75 billion $ for the recovery of British economy.
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| 5.3.1946 |
W.Churchill's speech about the "Iron Curtain" in Fulton
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| 10.2.1947 |
Paris peace talks (with Hitler's allies Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland)
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| 4.3.1947 |
France and UK sign a treaty about common ways in dealing with international and security policy.
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| 12.3.1947 |
Announcement of Truman's Doctrine (supporting democracy) - leading to financial support for legitim governments in Turkey and Greece
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| 22.3.1947 |
President Harry S. Truman issues the Truman Lovalty Order, which made it possible to run checks on state employees for their loyality to the Constitution and possible collaboration on sabotage acts
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| 5.6.1947 |
Start of the supportive Marshall's plan. (state secretary gen. George C.Marshall, in Harvard)
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| .7.1947 |
July issue of "Foreign Affairs" prints an article by G.Kennan about "containment of russian expansive tendencies"
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| 26.7.1947 |
National Security Act The National Security Act ordered the self-governing parts of the armed forces under the new department of defense. James V.Forrestal becomes first secretary of defense. National Security Board founded, which included the CIA.
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| 5.10.1947 |
Founding of Informbyro - international organization of communist parties
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| 29.11.1947 |
UN Great Assembly acknowledges the division of Palestine to arabic and jewish state. On the same day riots between Arabs and Jews broke out on the british mandate territory.
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| 14.5.1948 |
After last British units left Palestine, Isreal was declared. However, its borders remained undefined.
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| 2.11.1948 |
Truman re-elected president
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| 18.1.1949 |
Foundment of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
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| 4.4.1949 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) entered by 11 states.
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| 12.5.1949 |
USSR ends the blockade of West Berlin
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| 23.5.1949 |
Forming of West Germany
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| 23.9.1949 |
First Soviet atom bomb test.
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| 7.10.1949 |
Forming of East Germany
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