US, Britain, and Russia had been allies for seven months, from April 1917 until the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in November
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia followed by its withdrawal from World War I, Soviet Russia found itself isolated in international diplomacy
Lenin's death
HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT
COMMUNIST PARTY MAKES GAINS IN GERMANY
British P.M. Chamberlain agrees that Hitler can have Czechoslovakia.
US and Soviet form allies against azis powers
, Germany broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union through the territories that the two countries had previously divided
Cold War at Pearl Harbor
FDR, Stalin and Churchill meet in Iran
Soviet Troops now in Poland
Greek Communist defeated
yalta conference
cold war begins
Defeat of Japan and Germany
Russia declares war on Japan
World War II ends in Europe
Stalin Hostile Speech
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
Russia tested its first atomic bomb
Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests
Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons