ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Post-War Years, 1945-1949 </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Appeasement <BR> and WW II </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlww2.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlecw.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Early Cold War </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on April 4th 2003, last revised on September 6th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline Post-War Years, 1945-1949 </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/meh/tlpostwar.html </i></font></B> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1945 V 8 <BR> 1945 <BR><BR> 1945 <BR><BR> 1945 VI <BR> 1945 VII 5 <BR><BR> 1945 VII-VIII <BR> 1945 X 24 <BR> 1945-1949 <BR><BR><BR> 1945-1950 <BR><BR><BR> 1946 III 3 <BR><BR> 1946 III 6 <BR> 1946 VI <BR> 1946 XII 31 <BR><BR><BR> 1946 <BR> 1946-1949 <BR> 1946-1949 <BR><BR> 1947 II 10 <BR> 1947 III 12 <BR><BR> 1947 IV 7 <BR> 1947 VI 5 <BR> 1947 VIII 15 <BR> 1947 X <BR> 1947 <BR> 1947-1954 <BR> 1948 I <BR> 1948 II 25 <BR> 1948 IV 16 <BR> 1948 V 14 <BR> 1948 VI 20 <BR> 1948 VI 24 <BR> 1948 VI 25 <BR> 1948 VII-VIII <BR> 1948 IX 4 <BR> 1949 IX 7 <BR> 1949 X 7 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Unconditional surrender of <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Germany</A>; Wotld War II in Europe over <BR> USA : CARE founded; in 1946 first shipment of 20,000 parcels arrived at Le Havre, adressed <BR> to European families in need <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xbelgium.html">B</A> : King Leopold III. is barred from returning to the country; lives in exile in Switzerland. <BR> In 1950 permitted to return, abdicated in 1951, succeeded by son Baudouin <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : elections won by Labour; Clement Attlee new PM ("New Labour") <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : Trial of Henri-Philippe Petain; sentenced to death, for treason; sentence commuted <BR> into life in prison; Petain died in 1951 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xpoland.html">Poland</A> occupies Stettin, Swinem&uuml;nde <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xnorway.html">Norway</A> : collaborator Vidkun Quisling executed <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Germany</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xaustria.html">Austria</A> : Allied Powers implement DENAZIFICATION. In US Zones, Western <BR> Zones the policy was relaxed in 1947, as it harmed the economic reconstruction; in Soviet <BR> Zone continued until 1949 <BR> Over 10 million ethnically German residents of <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xpoland.html">Poland</A>, (incl. the recently occupied territories), <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/russia/xussr.html">USSR</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xczechoslovakia.html">Czechoslovakia</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xhungary.html">Hungary</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xyugoslavia.html">Yugoslavia</A> were expelled (HEIMATVERTRIEBENE); most <BR> move into <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Western Germany</A>, some into the <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Soviet Zone</A>, some into <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xaustria.html">Austria</A> <BR> International Miltary Tribunal (War Crimes Tribunal) at Nuremberg (in Ger.: N&uuml;rnberg) <BR> proclaims sentences against 20 leading Nazis <BR> Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xitaly.html">Italy</A> : the monarchy abolished by plebiscite; republic introduced <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Germany</A>, British Zone : Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, in his New Years Radio <BR> Address, declares that stealing in times of extreme economic distress, for the purpose of <BR> mere survival, is not a sin; "fringsen" becomes a popular expression for stealing coal <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">France</A> : colonies elevated to overseas territories <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xgreece.html">Greece</A> : Greek Civil War; British and US heavily support democratic side, <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xbulgaria.html">Bulgaria</A>, <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xyugoslavia.html">Yugoslavia</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xalbania.html">Albania</A> communist side <BR> British intern Jewish illegal immigrants (on their way to <A HREF = "../../region/arabworld/xpalestine.html">Palestine</A>) in camps on <A HREF = "../../region/asmin/xcyprus.html">Cyprus</A> <BR> Allied Peace Treaties with <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xbulgaria.html">Bulgaria</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xromania.html">Romania</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xfinland.html">Finland</A> <BR> US President Harry S. Truman announces US aid for <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xgreece.html">Greece</A> and <A HREF = "../../region/asmin/xturkey.html">Turkey</A> in order to prevent <BR> these countries falling to communism (Truman-Doctrine) <BR> The Dodecanese Islands, Italian 1912-1945, British occupied 1945-1947, integrated into <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xgreece.html">Greece</A> <BR> US : Marshall Plan (European Recovery Plan) announced; in action 1948-1951 <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : <A HREF = "../../region/india/xindia.html">India</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/india/xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> released into independence <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xpoland.html">Poland</A> : People's Republic proclaimed <BR> Benelux founded (<A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xbelgium.html">B</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xluxemburg.html">LUX</A>) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xitaly.html">Italy</A> : Free Territory of Trieste, under military occupation <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/india/xindia.html">India</A> : Mahatma Gandhi assassinated <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/eceurope/xczechoslovakia.html">Czechoslovakia</A> : President Masaryk defenestrated; People's Republic established <BR> OEEC established <BR> United Nations vote for partition of <A HREF = "../../region/arabworld/xpalestine.html">Palestine</A>; <A HREF = "../../region/arabworld/xisrael.html">Israel</A> declares independence <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Germany</A>, Western Zones : currency reform implemented, DM introduced. <BR> Begin of the Berlin Blockade (until 1949 V 30) <BR> Begin of Berlin Airlift <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : Summer Olympics, London; <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">Germany</A>, <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xaustria.html">Austria</A>, Japan barred, <A HREF = "../../region/russia/xussr.html">USSR</A> does not send team <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A> : Queen Wilhelmina abdicates, succeeded by her daughter Juliana <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">FRG</A> established (Federal Republic of Germany) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">GDR</A> established (German Democratic Republic) <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> History by Period : </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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