1940s

• what happened in the years 1945-1949?

  1945: Yalta (February) Potsdam (July-August). Atomic bomb dropped (US)

  1946: Long telegram (Kennan, February), Iron curtain (Churchill, March) and Novikov telegram (September)

  1947: Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan (March and April).

  1948: Berlin blockade/airlift

  1949: China fall to communism in chinese civil war, NATO formed, berlin airlift ends, Soviet atomic bomb drops, Germany divided.