DATES

• First Chinese Civil War breaks out

  August 1927
• Japan invades Manchuria


  September 1931
• Japan invades China and the GMD + CCP reach a truce

  July 1937
• Japan occupy French Indo-China

  1940
• Founding of the House of Un-American Activities

  1938
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact


  23 August 1939
• Invasion of Poland


  1 September 1939
• Ho Chi Minh returns + establishes the Viet Minh

  1941
• Operation Barbarossa


  22 June 1941
• Atlantic Charter


  14 August 1941
• Lublin Government


  22 July 1949
• Moscow Conference


  October 1944
• Yalta Conference


  4-11 February 1945
• Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes President

  12 April 1945
• Hitler commits suicide


  30 April 1945
• Germany officially surrenders


  7 May 1945
• Provisional Government of National Unity established in Poland

  28 June 1945
• USA gains atomic monopoly

  16 July 1945
• Potsdam Conference


  17 July - 2 August 1945
• Bombing of Hiroshima


  6 August 1945
• Bombing of Nagasaki


  9 August 1945
• Japanese surrender


  29 August 1945
• Ho Chi Minh proclaims the DRV

  29 August 1945
• Long Telegram


  22 February 1946
• Stalin allows founding of four political parties in Soviet zone


  1945
• KPD and SPD forcibly merged to form SED

  February 1946
• Iron Curtain Speech


  5 March 1946
• Iran Crisis


  March 1946
• Greek Civil War


  March 1946-49
• Second Chinese Civil War breaks out

  1946-49
• General Clay announces no further reparations


  May 1946
• Paris Peace Conference


  July-October 1946
• Creation of North Rhine-Westphilia in Germany

  23 August 1946
• Busan Autumn Uprising


  1946
• Communist government imposed in Romania

  December 1946
• Polish socialist and communist parties merge together

  January 1947
• Bizonia established


  1 January 1947
• Britain appeals to the USA (Greek Civil War)

  February 1947
• Truman Doctrine


  12 March 1947
• Moscow Conference 2


  March-April 1947