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Germany–Soviet Union relations
- Molotov PlanVyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan in 1947, but his economic system had been operating since 1945. The Soviet Union began bilateral trade…
- Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactAfter Stalin signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, he did something almost no one had seen him do. He personally saw off Japan's Foreign Minister…
- Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)The flight and expulsion of Germans between 1944 and 1950 stands as the largest forced migration in modern European history.
- Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was signed on the 1st of August 1945, at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, as the guns fell silent across Europe but war still raged in…
- Vega programThe Vega program launched two spacecraft toward Venus in December 1984, carrying a secret tucked inside each one: a balloon.
- Stalin NoteThe Stalin Note reached representatives of the United States, Britain, and France on the 10th of March 1952. Andrei Gromyko delivered it on behalf of the…
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
- Potsdam ConferenceThe Potsdam Conference opened on the 17th of July 1945, just sixteen days after the most destructive war in human history had ended in Europe.
- German prisoners of war in the Soviet UnionGerman prisoners of war in the Soviet Union represent one of the most contested and tragic chapters of the Second World War.
- Tear down this wall!At 2:00 p.m. on the 12th of June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, shielded from East Berlin by two panes of bulletproof…
- Berlin Crisis of 1961The Berlin Crisis of 1961 brought the Cold War closer to open conflict than any event since the Second World War ended. At its peak, American and Soviet…
- OstpolitikIn 1963, Egon Bahr stood before the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing and delivered a speech that would eventually reshape Europe.
- Occupation of the Baltic statesThe occupation of the Baltic states is one of modern Europe's longest and most contested erasures of national sovereignty.
- Kaliningrad OblastKaliningrad Oblast holds roughly 90 percent of the world's amber deposits, which is why many Russians call it the Amber Land.