1940s Flashcards
Yalta Conference Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war. Topics discussed included – Partitioning of Germany Fate of Poland The United Nations German reparations
February 4th – 11th 1945
Potsdam Conference
july-august 1945
Hiroshima The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
August 6th 1945
Nagasaki The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
August 8th 1945
Vietnam Independence Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic.
September 2nd 1945
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “..an iron curtain has descended on Europe”
March 5th 1946
Truman Doctrine President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover
March 12th 1947
Marshall Plan This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
June 5th 1947
Cominform The USSR set up Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) which was the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern bloc.
September 1947
Formation of West Germany The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany
June 1948
Berlin Blockade Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift.
June 24th 1948
End of Berlin Blockade Russia ended the blockade of Berlin.
May 1949
NATO formed The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
April 4th 1949
