On January 18, 2026, members of the Israeli government’s far-right wing publicly rejected a United States-backed plan to establish a multi-national “Gaza executive board” intended to help...
1942–1944 — Communist-led partisans, Balli Kombëtar and other nationalist forces resist Italian and later German occupation. Rival resistance movements also fight one another over Albania...
1914–1918 — Austro-Hungarian, Italian, French, Serbian and other forces occupy different parts of Albania. The country largely loses unified central government during the conflict, and it...
14 August 1941 — Roosevelt and Churchill issue a statement of broad principles for the postwar world, including territorial restraint, economic cooperation and forms of self-government. T...
David Rockefeller began his postwar banking career at Chase National Bank in 1946 as an assistant manager in the foreign department.
24 November 1942 — Manstein receives command of Army Group Don during the Stalingrad crisis. He attempts to organize relief of the Sixth Army and later conducts the successful counteroffe...
1 January 1942 — By 1942 SS planning for a postwar German empire in Eastern Europe envisions massive population displacement, German settlement and racial reordering. Exact versions of Ge...
12 March 1938 — German troops enter Austria after intense political pressure on the Austrian government. Hitler announces the incorporation of Austria into the German Reich. Many Austrian...
13 March 1920 — Right-wing forces attempt to overthrow the Weimar government after disputes over the reduction of Germany's postwar military formations. The government temporarily flees B...
10 January 1920 — The League of Nations formally begins operation as part of the postwar effort to create a system of collective security. Its members pledge to address international disp...
1 December 1925 — Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy sign agreements intended to stabilize Western Europe's postwar borders. Germany accepts its western frontiers, while Britain ...
18 January 1919 — The victorious Allied and Associated Powers gather in Paris to determine the postwar settlement. Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orla...
22 July 1944 — The Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation presents itself as a new governing authority for liberated Polish territory. The committee challenges the legitima...
4 January 1944 — The Polish Home Army begins implementing Operation Tempest as Soviet forces approach prewar Polish territory. Underground units attempt to fight German forces openly and ...
Economic growth, urbanization and migration reshape Greek society in the 1950s and 1960s.
16 August 1924 — The Dawes Plan illustrates the interdependent postwar financial system: American capital flows to Germany, Germany pays reparations to Britain and France, and the Allies ...
7 March 1936 — Hitler's decision to remilitarize the Rhineland is a major gamble because German forces are not prepared for a serious military confrontation with France. The absence of mi...
28 November 1943 — Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet together for the first time. Stalin presses strongly for a second front in Western Europe, and the Western Allies confirm plans for...
28 November 1943 — Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meet together for the first time. Stalin presses for a Western invasion of France while the Soviet Union continues carrying the main lan...
Untitled25 April 1943 — The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with the Polish government-in-exile after disputes over investigation of the Katyn massacre. The break has major conse...
29 October 1929 — Severe declines on the New York Stock Exchange become a symbol of the developing global economic crisis. Banking failures, declining trade, falling demand and contractio...
1 August 1944 — The Polish Home Army launches an uprising against German occupation as Soviet forces approach Warsaw. Polish leaders hope to liberate the capital before Soviet-backed auth...
4 February 1945 — At Yalta, the Western Allies and Soviet Union remain military partners but increasingly disagree about Poland and the political future of Eastern Europe. Stalin seeks st...
4 February 1945 — Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet in Crimea as Germany approaches defeat. They discuss occupation zones, Poland, postwar Germany, Soviet parti...
4 February 1945 — Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin debate Poland's borders and government at Yalta. The Soviet Union already occupies most Polish territory, giving Stalin overwhelming leve...