1949 February 8- The Yalta Conference occurs, deciding the post-war status of Germany. The allies of world war ll divide Germany into four different zones. The Allie nations decide to agree that free elections should be held in all countries that have Nazi Germans. Also the new united nations are to replace the failed League of Nations. April 12- Franklin D Roosevelt has a stroke and dies while out on his vacation in Warm springs, GA. April 23- US president Harry S. Truman gives a speech to minister Vyacheslav Molotov telling him that he was determined to take a “firmer” stance with the soviets than his predecessor had. July 24- During the Potsdam Conference, US president Harry S Truman lets Soviet Union Leader Joseph Stalin know that the US …show more content…
Byrnes, United States Secretary of State repudiates the Morgenthau Plan. He states the US intention to keep troops in Europe indefinitely and expresses US approval of the territorial annexation of 29% of pre-war Germany, but does not condone further claims. September 8: In a referendum, Bulgaria votes for the establishment of a People's Republic, deposing King Simeon II. Western countries dismiss the vote as fundamentally flawed. September 24: Truman is presented with the Clifford-Elsey Report, a document which listed Soviet violations of agreements with the United States. September 27: Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov writes a response to Kennan's Long Telegram, known as the 'Novikov Telegram', in which he states that the United States are "striving for world supremacy".[4] December 19: French landings in Indochina begin the First Indochina War. They are resisted by the Viet Minh communists who want national independence. 1947 Edit January 1: The American and British zones of control in Germany are united to form the Bizone also known as Bizonia. March 12: President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine starting with the giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet