Dates (45'-49') Flashcards
When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945
When was the Potsdam Conference?
July-August 1945
When was the ‘percentages agreement’ made?
October 1944
When did Roosevelt die, and Hitler commit suicide?
April 1945
When did WWII in Europe officially end?
May 1945
When were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs dropped?
August 1945
When did WWII officially end?
September 1945
When did Petru Groza become PM in Romania?
March 1945
When was the anti-communist demonstration outside of the Royal Palace in Bucharest?
November 1945
In which election did the Communists win 84% of the vote in Romania?
November 1946
When was King Michael forced to abdicate, where soon after Romania was declared a republic?
30th of December 1947
In which election did the PCF become the largest party in French parliament, with 182/627 seats (approx. 29%)
November 1946
When did the Communists become the largest party in Hungary?
August 1947
When did Hungary officially become a republic, passing a constitution near-identical to the USSR’s one?
August 1949
What election in Czechoslovakia did the Communists win 38% of the vote, with Gottwald becoming PM?
May 1946
When was the Prague coup?
February 1948
When was Masaryk assassinated?
March 1948
When did Kennan send his ‘Long Telegram’?
February 1946
When did Churchill make his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech?
March 1946
When did the Communist-led Democratic Bloc in Poland win the elections?
June 1946
When did the Communists win 75% of the popular vote in Bulgaria?
October 1946
When did the US/UK stop giving reparations to the USSR?
May 1946
When was Bizonia formed?
January 1947
When was the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers?
Spring 1947
When was the London Conference of Foreign Ministers?
Autumn 1947
When did the British announce they could no longer support Greece with aid?
February 1947
When did the KKE eventually succumb to defeat in the Greek Civil War?
September 1949
When was the Truman Doctrine?
March 1947
When was Marshall Aid announced?
June 1947
When was the Paris Conference?
April-July 1947
When was the Cominform launched?
September 1947
When did the PCF launch massive anti-Marshall Aid strikes, with two million workers?
November-December 1947
When was the idea of the Balkan Federation scuttled by Stalin?
January 1948
When did the breach in relations between Tito and Stalin become public knowledge?
June 1948
When was Yugoslavia expelled from the Cominform?
June 1948
When was Comecon founded?
January 1949
When was trizonia formed?
June 1948
When was the Deutschmark introduced?
June 1948
When did the Berlin Blockade begin?
June 1948
When did the Berlin Blockade end?
May 1949
When was the Federal Republic of Germany (FDR) formed?
September 1949
When was the German Democratic Republic (DDR) formed?
October 1949
When was Marshall Aid officially signed into law?
April 1948
When does the Korean War start?
June 1950
When does the Korean War end?
July 1953
When was the Brussels Pact signed?
March 1948
When did the USSR test its first atomic bomb?
August 1949
When was the Chinese Communist Revolution finally successful, under Mao Zedong?
October 1949
When was the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship signed?
February 1950
