1947

1941 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

Formation of Cominform set up
the Grand
Alliance

1945
1949
Yalta and Potsdam
Setting up Comecon
The Americans develop
their first atomic bomb End of the Berlin Blockade
Formation of the Federal Republic
of Germany and the German
Democratic Republic
NATO set up 1956
The Hungarian Uprising

Superpower Relations and the Cold War

1955
Setting up the Warsaw
Pact

1946
Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech
Long and Novikov Telegrams
1943
The Tehran
Conference 1948
Beginning of the Berlin
Blockade