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Tehran Conference (628)
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met and decided to defeat Germany by carrying on the war in two fronts. The United States and Great Britain would attack from the West, and the Soviets would attack from the East. -
1946, Nuremberg Trials
22 Nazi leaders were tried with crimes against peace and humanity. In the end, 12 were sentenced to death, 7 sentenced to life in prison, and 3 were acquitted. -
Yalta Conference (628)
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Yalta and decided to divide Austria and Germany into zones of military occupation. -
1st United Nations Meeting (631)
Representatives of 51 different countries met in San Francisco. This General Assembly agreed on a charter for the United Nations. By October, enough nations had ratified the charter. -
Potsdam Conference (629)
Allied leaders met to discuss a postwar settlement. -
Cold War (633)
The struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was also a struggle between communism and democracy. -
Truman Doctrine (634)
President Truman spoke before Congress and went on to set forth a policy that declared that the US must consider the spread of communism to be a threat to democracy. -
Creation of Cominform (635)
Soviets established the Communist Information Bureau, or Cominform, to oppose the Marshall Plan. It included all of Europe's communist paries, It created tension between communist and noncommunist parties in Europe, and it was unsuccessful in opposing the Marshall Plan. -
Marshall Plan (635)
The US formed a new plan of massive economic assistance because Western leaders feared that the long lasting poverty from WWII would drive Europeans into communist parties -
Berlin Airlift (636)
The United States and Great Britain organized the Berlin Airlift to supply West Berlin during the blockade. -
Soviets denote atomic bomb (638)
In the summer of 1949, the Soviets denoted their first atomic bomb. -
Creation of NATO (638)
Twelve Western nations signed the treaty creating the North Atlantic Threat Organization. They agreed that if one member nation were attacked all of the NATO members would take action against the aggressor. -
Division of Germany (636)
Germany was divided into East and West. The Western Allies took control of West Germany, and the Soviets took control of East Germany. -
End of Chinese Civil War (638)
Troops of the Chinese Communist Party defeated the Chinese Nationalist government, driving the Nationalists off to Taiwan. -
North Korea invades South Korea (638)
North Korean communist forces invade South Korea. -
Warsaw Pact (638)
The representatives of the Eastern Bloc adopted a 20-year mutual defense agreement. The Warsaw Pact troops strongly outnumbered NATO troops in Europe.
