The Cold War

By CarmenJoness

  • Defeat Of Germany and Japan

  • YALTA conference meeting of FDR

    Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
    Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins

  • Victory in Europe.

    Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin

  • Potsdam Conference

    Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation.

  • The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)

  • Russia declares war on Japan

  • The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    (22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills 70,000)

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Emperor surrender broadcast - VJ Day

  • Stalin hostile speech

    communism & capitalism were incompatible

  • "Sinews of Peace"

    Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe"

  • Truman demands Russia leave Iran