Key Dates Flashcards
October 1917
Russian Revolution
1917-20
Russian Civil War
September 1939
Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland
June 1941
German invasion of USSR
September 1943
Italian Armistice
November-December 1943
Tehran Conference
6th June 1944
Allied forces invade France
July 1944
Red Army enter central Poland
23rd August 1944
Formation of coalition government in Romania
9th September 1944
Communist coup in Bulgaria
9th October 1944
Anglo-Soviet ‘percentages agreement’
December 1944
British suppressed Communist uprising in Greece
4th-11th February 1945
Yalta Conference
8th May 1945
Unconditional German surrender
July-August 1945
Potsdam Conference
5th March 1946
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
21st April 1946
Social Unity Party formed
April-July 1946
Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers
3rd May 1946
General Clay halted reperation payments from Soviet Zone
1st January 1947
Anglo-American bizone formed