International Relations, 1945 - 2004

  • Yalta Conference held

    Yalta Conference held

    Britain, USA and the USSR plan for post-war Europe
  • Germany Surrender

    Germany Surrender

  • Period: to

    Potsdam Conference held

  • Churchill Iron Curtain speech

    Churchill Iron Curtain speech

  • Kennan's Long Telegram

    Kennan's Long Telegram

  • Bizonia created

    Bizonia created

  • Truman Doctrine announced

    Truman Doctrine announced

  • Marshall Plan announced

    Marshall Plan announced

  • Final communist regime established

    Final communist regime established

    Czechoslovakia forced into acceptin aommunism, to establish the last of the Eastern European countries into communist regimes
  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade

  • Comecon set up

    Comecon set up

  • NATO set up

    NATO set up

  • West Germany established

    West Germany established

  • East Germany set up

    East Germany set up

  • Truman announces Hydrogen Bomb production

    Truman announces Hydrogen Bomb production

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Formation of the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty

    Formation of the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty

  • European Defence Community established

    European Defence Community established

  • Stalin dies

    Stalin dies

  • USSR explode Hydrogen Bomb

    USSR explode Hydrogen Bomb

  • Period: to

    Austrian State Treaty

  • Period: to

    Khrushchev visits China

  • Warsaw Pact created

    Warsaw Pact created

  • Period: to

    Revolution in Hungary

  • Treaty of Rome sets up the EEC

    Treaty of Rome sets up the EEC

  • Khrushchev demand the allies to leave Berlin

    Khrushchev demand the allies to leave Berlin

  • Khrushchev visits the USA and withdraws the Berlin demands

    Khrushchev visits the USA and withdraws the Berlin demands

  • US U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR

    US U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR