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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
United States first used atomic bomb in war
The United States used an atomic bomb on Japan to take them out of the war -
Russia enters war against Japan
Russia declares war against Japan shortly after the USA dropped the atomic bomb, -
Japanese surrenders, ending World War II
The Japanese surrender to the allied powers after the Soviet Union declares war on Japan and after the dropping of the atomic bomb, World War II ends after. -
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
A speech in where Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Unions policies in Europe -
Truman announces Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall plan is announced
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
Under pressure from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, President Eduard Benes allows a communist-dominated government to be organized. -
Berlin blockade begins
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
NATO treaty ratified
The United States and 11 other nations establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. -
Berlin Blockade Ends
Russia lifts an 11 month blockade in West Germany -
Soviets explode first atomic bomb 1955: May - Warsaw Pact
The Soviets test their first atomic bomb code named "First Lightning" -
Mao Zedong, a communist, takes control of China
Mao Zedong changes China's government in to a communist government -
Mao declared victory in the Communist revolution and established the People's Republic of China
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that ended China's civil war. -
Articles in the state controlled papers introduced the idea of a "Culutral Revolution"
Articles in china introduce the idea of a "cultural revolution" -
Mao called for the Red Guards to destroy the "Four Olds": old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas
Mao calls for the Red Guards to destroy the "four olds" for the cultural revolution -
Mao offically launched the "Cultural Revolution" with a speech at the Chinese Communist Part
Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. -
Red Guards achieved the overthrow of provincial party comittee officials and replaced them with radicals
Red Guards overthrow provincial party committee and replace them with radicals -
Top-Level communist party officials called for an end of the Culutal Revolution, but Mao continued to support it
Communist officials wanted an end to the Cultural Revolution but Mao continued to support it -
Mao replaced pre-Cultural Revolution party officials with radicals who supported the revolution
Mao replaced per-cultural revolution part officials with radicals who supported it -
On Mao's orders, the Red Guards were broken up in the "rustification movement," where individual teenagers were "sent down" to villages to China to "learn from peasants"
The red guards were broken up in the "rustification movement" -
Mao declared "victory" of the Cultural Revolution and supported Lin Biao as his new successior
Mao declared the Cultural Revolution a success and supported Lin Biao as his successor