Teheran Conference

Moscow Meeting and Percentages Agreement

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Non-Communists win free elections in Hungary - Rakosi begins salami tactics

Iron Curtain and Long Telegram

Non-Communists win elections in Czechoslovakia

Non-Communists did well in Bulgaria

Communists win elections in Romania

Rigged elections gave communists power in Poland

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan announced

Kennan's Article 'X' published

Non-communists persecuted in Bulgaria

Communists dominated elections in Hungary

Cominform

Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia under threat of Soviet invasion

Berlin Blockade begins

Comecon

Formation of NATO

Russians stand down from Berlin Blockade

Creation of Federal Republic of Germany

Creation of German Democratic Republic