Hist SBQ Intl

Overall Timeline Date Event Ongoing Phenomena WWII Aug 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre Jun-Nov 1941 Operation Barbarossa 1941 Atlantic Charter 1944 Warsaw Uprising 1944 Morgenthau Plan 6 June 1944 Delayed opening of the Second Front Sept 1944 Communist coup in Bulgaria Sovietisation of Eastern Europe [BPHRC] 4-11 Feb 1945 Yalta Conference Feb 1945 Declaration of Liberated Europe Mar 1945 Kidnapping of the Polish Provisional Government Apr 1945 Death of Roosevelt 12 May 1945 End of US lend-lease aid to the USSR July 1945 Churchill replaced by Attlee 17 July-2 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference July 1945 US development of the atomic bomb 6, 9 Aug 1945 US deployment of the atomic bomb Start of Bipolarity Jan-Mar 1946 Delayed Soviet withdrawal from Iran 22 Feb 1946 George Kennan's Long Telegram 5 Mar 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain speech 14 Mar 1946 Stalin’s Pravda response 30 Mar 1946 Start of Greek Civil War 2 June 1946 Communist gains in French and Italian elections

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 7 Aug 1946 Soviet escalation of Turkish Straits Crisis 6 Sept 1946 Byrnes' Speech of Hope 24 Sept 1946 Clifford-Elsey Report Feb 1947 Communist coup in Poland 12 Mar 1947 Truman Doctrine 29 May 1947 Formation of Bizonia in Western Germany 5 June 1947 Marshall Plan 2 July 1947 Molotov Plan 8 July 1947 Publication of the Long Telegram 22 Sept 1947 Zhdanov's Two Camps speech 5 Oct 1947 Creation of COMINFORM Oct 1947 Communist coup in Hungary Dec 1947 Communist coup in Romania Feb 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia 20 June 1948 Operation Bird Dog First Berlin Crisis 24 June 1948 Start of Berlin Blockade 26 June 1948 Start of Berlin Airlift 1 Aug 1948 Formation of Trizonia 25 Jan 1949 Formation of Soviet COMECON 4 Apr 1949 Formation of NATO 12 May 1949 End of Berlin Blockade 23 May 1949 Formation of West Germany 29 Aug 1949 Successful atomic bomb test by the USSR 1 Oct 1949 Formation of the People’s Republic of China 7 Oct 1949 Formation of East Germany 14 Feb 1950 Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 7 Apr 1950 NSC-68 25 June 1950 Start of Korean War Korean War 5 Mar 1953 Death of Stalin 27 July 1953 End of Korean War 23 Oct 1954 Decision to allow West Germany to enter NATO 6 May 1955 Accession of West Germany into NATO 14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact Peaceful Coexistence 15 May 1955 Allied withdrawal from Austrian occupation 1955 Removal of Soviet bases from Finland 17 Apr 1956 Dismantling of COMINFORM 23