Events between 1945 - 1949
Events
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Division of Germany & Eastern Europe - argue over influence, USSR will fight Japan after Germany surrender.
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Truman, Stalin, Churchill/Atlee. Eastern Europe control to USSR (troops), how Germany is treated, reparations.
USA Atomic bomb test
July 1945
Iron Curtain Speech
March 1946
Missouri USA: Encourage Anti-Communism, "world policeman" role to US.
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
"Containment" - money, supplies, equipment to fight communism.
Marshal Plan
June 1947
George Marshall (secretary of state) to Europe, USA owned $11.5 billion, Europe is a mess, so in December 1947 Truman asks congress for $13+ billion - congress decline.
Cominform
October 1947
Co-ordinate communist parties of Eastern Europe, (Stalin controlled).
Trizonia
March 1948
France, GB & USA join together (goes against Yalta Conference).
Marshal Plan Approved
April 1948
New Currency
23rd June 1948
Trizonia introduces Deutschmark - devalues Reichsmark
Berlin Blockade
24th June 1948
USSR shuts down borders to 2.5 million people.
Berlin Airlift
27th June 1948
USA fly 2.3 million tons of supplies in, plane every 3 minutes, for 11 months.
Comecon
January 25, 1949
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR, East Germany = Trading group - Communist control over currency, raw materials, trade (USSR need excuse to get cheap supplies).
NATO
April 1949
USA, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK: USA can put A-bombs next to USSR, use Europe troops, influence "too keep peace" = very threatening to USSR.
West Germany created (FRG)
23rd May 1949
USSR test Atomic bomb
August 1949
China goes Communist (PRC)
October 1, 1949
USA does not recognise it as offical Govt, so communicates with capitalist Taiwan.
East Germany created (GDR)
October 1949