AP World History Time Line

By jojoru
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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