IR Timeline Flashcards
Grand Alliance formed
1941
Buffer states formed
1941
Second front promised
1942
Tehran conference
1943
C dom go to set up in Bulgaria
1944
Second front opened
1944
Coalition govt set up in Romania
1945
C encouraged by Stalin to demonstrate and disrupt Romanian govt
Jan
1945
Yalta conference
February
1945
USSR army intervened, forced Romanian king to appoint C dom govt
March
1945
Roosevelt dies
Truman takes over
April
1945
End of WW2
May
1945
Coalition govt set up in Poland
June
1945
Potsdam conference
July
1945
US test atom bomb
1945
C win rigged elections on Bulgaria
Nov
1945
C=80% of votes in Romania
November
1945
C govt in Romania
1946
DeNazification
1946
Iron curtain speech
March
1946
Arrested Bela Kovacs, leader of Smallholders party
1947
Coalition govt in Czechoslovakia
1947
Cominform
1947
Truman Doctrine
1947
Bizone
1947
C party in Hungary
1947
Rigged elections won in Poland
Jan
1947
USSR used army to control Czechoslovakia
1948
Marshall plan
1948
Trizone
1948
Deutschmark, Ostmark
June 1948
Stalin rep walked out of ACC meeting
June
1948