Timeline: International events 1945-1991

Question 1

Yalta conference

Answer 1

Febuary 1945

Question 2

American/Soviet troops meet on river Elbe

Answer 2

April 1945

Question 3

German surrender signed

Answer 3

May 1945

Question 4

Western troops enter Berlin

Answer 4

July 1945

Question 5

Potsdam conference

Answer 5

July/August 1945

Question 6

Nuremberg war trial sentencing

Answer 6

October 1946

Question 7

Moscow conference of four victorious allies

Answer 7

March 1947

Question 8

Announcement of European economic reconstruction plan by George Marshall, US foreign minister

Answer 8

June 1947

Question 9

London conference of four victorious allies in London

Answer 9

November 1947

Question 10

Six powers conference, founding of West German state is reccommended

Answer 10

Febuary 1948

Question 11

Last meeting of the allied control council

Answer 11

May 1948

Question 12

European coal and steel committee treaty signed

Answer 12

April 1951

Question 13

Joeseph Stalin dies

Answer 13

March 1953

Question 14

Treaty of Rome, establising European Economic community, is signed

Answer 14

March 1957

Question 15

Berlin ultimatum issued by the Soviet union

Answer 15

November 1958

Question 16

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 16

October 1962

Question 17

Troops of the Warsaw pact invade Yugoslavia

Answer 17

August 1968

Question 18

Four power agreement signed in Berlin

Answer 18

September 1971

Question 19

Start of global oil prices - Arab nations restrict oil supplies and raise prices

Answer 19

October 1973

Question 20

Signing of the CSCE Final Act in Helsinki

Answer 20

August 1975

Question 21

Slovenia and Croatia declare independence, civil war begins in Yugoslavia

Answer 21

June 1991