Key dates Flashcards
Bolshevik revolution
1917
Nazi - Soviet pact
Aug 1939
Operation Barbarossa
June 1941
Pearl harbour attack
Dec 1941
Grand alliance
1941
2nd front asked for
1942
2nd front given
1944
Katyn massacre
1940 `
Katyn graves dug up
1943
Warsaw uprising
1944
Yalta conference
4 - 11 Feb 1945
Potsdam conference
17 Jul - 1 Aug 1945
Percentages agreement
Oct 1944
Germany defeated
May 1945
Gomulka replaced by Beirut in Poland
1948
Communist leader of Poland Rajk executed
1949
Socialist and communist parties merge in Poland
Jan 1947
Red army disarms Romanian army
1945
- Czechoslovakia – non-communist parties resigned followed by the leader to hand the country over to USSR.
1948
All other political parties banned
1947
Yugoslavia expelled from cominform
1948
Kennan telegram
Feb 1946
Iron Curtain speech
March 1946
Pravda article
March 1946
Novikov telegram
Sep 1946
USSR walk out of Paris Peace conference
Jul 1947
Greek Civil war
1946-9
US get involved in Greek Civil War
1947
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
Marshall plan
June 1947
Cominform set up
Sep 1947
Zhandov doctrine
1946
NATO
Apr 1949
Comecon set up
1949
Czechoslovakian crisis
1948
US refuse soviet occupation if Ruhr, depriving German population and a centralised Germany
1947
Bizonia made
Jan 1947
New currency in West Germany
June 1948
West Germany gets Marshall aid, East denied
1948
Berlin blockade began
June 1948
End of berlin blockade
12 May 1949
Bombs dropped on Japan
Aug 1945
Japan rebel against French occupation
1945
Reverse course
1947
China became communist
Oct 1949
Sino soviet treaty of friendship
1950
San Francisco peace treaty
1951
Plans for new japanese air force
Nov 1952
Defensive perimeter strategy
Jan 1950
NSC-68
1950