Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Timeline - 1940s

1940

  • Stalin overthrows governments of the baltic
  • Trotsky killed
1941
  • Germany invades Russia - operation Barberosa
  • Stalin chair of the Sovnarkom
  • Operation Typhoon - Germans try to capture Moscow
1942
  • Battle of Stalingrad - 2 million die
1943
  • Tehran conference - allies plan ahead
1945
  • Soviets reach Berlin - end of WW2
  • Yolta - allies meet up
  • Potstans - allies meet up
1947-1949
  • Communism in eastern Europe
1949
  • Atomic bomb
  • Beginning of arms race
  • Cold war - "war of words"

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