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Yalta Conference
World War II allies attend the Yalta Conference. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union all met at Yalta. Discussed the defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. at the Yalta conference there was a decision to split Germany in to 3 divions. -
Franklin Roosevelt dies
Franklin Roosevelt dies at his presidential retreat in Georgia. His vice president, Harry Truman, assumes the presidency. -
Potsdam Conference
At the Potsdam Conference the Allies divided Germany into four military occupation zones. France in the southwest, Britain in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east. -
Iron Curtain speach
Former British prime minister Winston Churchill, speaking at a college in Fulton, Missouri, warns of the “Iron Curtain” descending on Europe. -
Trumans Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
Berlins air lift
June 1948, the Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals from western Berlin. They believed, it would stop people from getting food or any other supplies. Drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city. Instead of retreating from West Berlin the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This effort, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
Russians tested an atomic bomb
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had prompted Joseph Stalin to order the development of nuclear weapons within five years. -
The Korean War begins
The Korean War started mainly because of the disagreement between North and South Korean leaders. The Korean circumstances turned into a war mainly because of the United States and USSR. The two super powers of the world were having a cold war for a long time, even before the World War II. The United States managed to involve itself wherever they feared that communism would spread and Russia, which was a communist country, wanted to invade and spread communism. -
NATO and Warsaw pact
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Berlin wall
Communist government of the German Democratic Republic or eastern Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western people and trade from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.
