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United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union occupy zones of Berlin.
In 1945, the United States, Great Britain, and France had assumed the occupation of the western portion of Germany -
Polish industrial enterprises employing more than 50 workers are nationalized.
The economic record of Poland is as dramatic as its political history. For century and a quarter the country was subjected to economic and political partition. -
Harry Truman announces Truman Doctrine and the provision of aid to Greece.
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. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts. -
The start of the Berlin Airlift.
The Berlin Airlift happened in 1949. The reason it happened is that the Russians had cut off access from the Allied zones of occupation in West Germany to West Berlin, which was in the Russian zone . So the Allies had to either surrender West Berlin or they had to supply it by air. -
Israel agrees an armistice with Egypt.
The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of armistice agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and neighboring Egypt. Lebanon Jordan, and Syria to formally end the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and establish armistice lines between Israeli forces and Jordanian-Iraqi forces, also known as the Green Line. -
Alger Hiss is convicted for concealing his membership of the Communist Party.
The case had all the elements of a fine drama: compelling characters, accusations of treason, unusual evidence, the launching of a presidential career, and enough inconsistencies and ambiguities to leave the issue of guilt or innocence in doubt for decades. Indeed, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, one of the first goals of historians was to gain access to Moscow's archives and settle the question. -
Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul
The five battles of the Korean War fought in and around the city of Seoul are known as the Battle of Seoul: First Battle of Seoul – North Korean capture of Seoul on June 28, 1950; Second Battle of Seoul – United Nations forces capture Seoul from the North Koreans. -
Fulgencio Batista overthrows the Cuban government of President Prio Socarras
Fulgencio Batista, in full Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, soldier and political leader who twice ruled Cuba—first in 1933–44 with an efficient government and again in 1952–59 as a dictator, jailing his opponents, using terrorist methods, and making fortunes for himself and his associates. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Cerebral hemorrhage is a common and often fatal sub type of stroke. while in the past it has received relatively little attention compared to ischemic stroke, there have been major advances in our understanding of this devastating form of stroke. -
The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union announce the end of the Cold War.
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR.