Feb 1945
Big three met at Yalta
April 1945
Roosevelt died and Truman became US president
May 1945
Nazi Germany surrendered, ending war in Europe
May 1945
Soviet troops in control of Europe
June 1945
UN established
July-August 1945
Truman and Stalin met at the Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Churchill replaced by Attlee after losing general election
August 1945
US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 1945
Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence
December 1945
Byrnes(USA), Bevin(UK) and Molotov(USSR) met at the Moscow conference of foreign ministers
February 1946
Kennan sent long telegram from Moscow
March 1946
Churchill gave ‘iron curtain’ speech
March 1946
Civil War broke out between Communists and Monarchists in Greece
May 1946
US stopped taking reparations from its zone of occupation
January 1947
Germany merged to form Bizonia
March 1947
Truman Doctrine announced
March-april 1947
Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers between Marshall, Bevin and Molotov failed to reach agreement
May 1947
New liberal constitution implemented in Japan
June 1947
Marshall Plan proposed by Truman
July 1947
Kennan published an article explaining the policy of containment
September 1947
Soviets denounced the Marshall plan as imperialist in a speech to the UN
October 1947
Cominform established
October 1947
Rasoki established communist dominance in Hungarian Government
February 1948
Communists carried out a successful coup in Czechoslovakia
