History: A World Divided: Superpower relations, 1943-1972

**November 1943

Tehran Conference: the 'Big Three' met to plan war stratergy

**February 1945

Yalta Conference: the 'Big Three' discussed arrangements for the post-war world

**May 1945

VE Day (Victory Day in Europe): Allies defeated Hitler's Germany

**July 1945

Potsdam Conference: the 'Big Three' agreed to split Germany

**August 1945

The USA dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan

**February 1946

Long Telegram

**March 1946

Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech

**November 1946

Novikov Telegram

**March 1947

Truman Doctrine announced

**June 1947

Marshall Aid plan announced

**September 1947

First Cominform meeting

**February 1948

Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia

**June 1948

Berlin Blockade set up

**January 1949

Comecon established

**April 1949

NATO formed

**September 1949

Official founding of the Federal Republic of Germany

**October 1949

German Democratic Republic established