Cold War By Chivesanddahlias 1939 Germany and the USSR invade Poland 1939 US Neutrality Act updated to Cash and Carry Period: 1939 to 1945 World War 2 1941 US enters the war 1941 Lend-Lease Act 1941 Operation Barbarossa 1943 Casablanca 1943 Cario Conference 1943 Teheran Conference 1944 Percentages Agreement 1945 Division of Korea 1945 Establishment of the UN 1945 Yalta 1945 Potsdam 1945 Nuremberg Trials Period: 1945 to 1955 Occupied Austria 1946 Kennan's Long Telegram 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain/Fulton Speech 1946 Clifford-Elsy Report 1947 Marshall Plan 1947 Greek Civil War 1947 Truman Doctrine 1948 Berlin Blockade 1949 COMECON Council for Economic Assistance 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organzation (NATO) 1949 Federal Republic of Germany (west) 1949 German Democratic Republic (east) Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War 1955 Warsaw Pact 1956 Secret Speech 1956 Hungarian Uprising 1961 Belgrade Conference