1940s Flashcards
1
Q
1945
(9)
A
- Feb - Yalta
- End of WWI
- April - Roosevelt dies, Truman President
- July - Attlee elected PM
- July - Potsdam
- Aug - 1st Atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Aug - Treaty of Friendship between Stalin and Jiang Jieshi
- Oct - United Nations established
- Aug - Japanese surrendered in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh established Democratic Republic of Vietnam
2
Q
1946
(7)
A
- Feb - Long Telegram
- March - Iran Crisis
- March - Iron Curtain Speech
- March - Pravda Speech
- May - General Clay announced no further German reparations to be paid
- Oct - Molotov’s equal opportunity speech
- 1646-9 - Greek Civil war
3
Q
1947
(8)
A
- Jan - Bizonia
- March - Truman Doctrine
- May - $400m of aid to Greece and Turkey
- June/July - Conference on European Economic Cooperation (Paris Conference), Marshal Aid announced
- July - Truman signs National Security Act
- Summer - ‘Reverse Course’
- Oct - Cominform established
- Nov - Gaither Report suggested US nuclear weapons should be doubled
4
Q
1948
(6)
A
- Yugoslavia expelled from cominform
- March - Marshall Plan extended to Germany
- March - Prague Coup
- April - Marshall Plan into opperation
- June - Trizonia
- June 1948-May 1949 - Berlin Blockade
5
Q
1949
(5)
A
- Aug - NATO
- Aug - USSR detonated 1st atomic bomb
- Aug - FDR
- Oct - GDR
- Oct - PRC proclaimed
