History Berlin Blockade

1946

Sovietisation of Eastern Europe in

1) Romania,

2) Hungary,

3) Bulgaria,

4) Czechoslovakia,

5) Poland

• Salami Tactics

• Collation Governments

• Soviet-style economic and political systems

• Collectivisation of agriculture and state control of industry

1946, 9 February

Stalin’s Bolshoi Theatre Election Speech (Kennan was present)

1946, 22 February

Long Telegram send to Washington

1946, 2 March

start of Iranian Crisis

1946, 5 March

Iron Curtain Speech

1946, June

USA proposed the Baruch Plan

1946, August

Turkish Straits Crisis

1946, 16 September

Truman fired US Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace

1946, 24 September

Clifford-Elsey Report

1946, 27 September

Novikov Telegram sent to Moscow

1946, December

Soviet Rejection of the Baruch Plan

1947, 1 January

Formation of Bizonia

1947, 21 February

Britain informed the USA that it could no longer financially support the Greek government in its ongoing civil war with communists

1947, 12 March

Truman Doctrine speech

1947, May

Bizonia, the product of an economic merger between the US and British occupation zones in Germany, was announced

1947, 5 June

Marshall Plan Announcement

1947, 27 June

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov brought a big delegation to attend a Franco-Anglo-Soviet meeting in Paris to discuss the Marshall Plan

1947, July

JCS 1779 replaces JCS 1067

1947, July

Molotov Plan

1947, 25 August

end of Manhattan Project

1947, September

Zhdanov’s Two-Camp Speech at the Founding Conference of Cominform

1948

Currency Reform

1948, February

Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia

1948, April

Congress approved the Marshall Plan

1948, August

creation of Trizonia with inclusion of French occupation zones in Germany

1949, January

creation of Comecon

1949, April

creation of NATO

1949, 12 May

end of Berlin Blockade

1949, 23 May

creation of West Germany

1949, October

creation of East Germany