Arrange the following events in chronological order.
germany surrenders.
the yalta conference is held to discuss plans for the post-war world.
the cold war begins.
japan surrenders.

1. The Yalta conference is held to discuss plans for the post-war world.

Yalta Conference also known as the Crimean Conference was held from 4 to 11 February 1945. It brought together top three Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin from Britain, United States and Soviet Union respectively to dicuss post-war world.

2. Germany Surrenders

On May 7 1945, Germany officially surrendered resulting into an end of European conflict in World War 2. German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France

3. Japan surrenders

The atomic bombings on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August respectively forced Imperial Japan to announce surrender on August 15 1945. It was formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.

4. The Cold War begins.

At end of World War II, Britain was exhausted, Germany was destroyed, Imperial Japan was devastated leaving the United States and the Soviet Union as the ony formidable powers in the world. However both powers went into Cold war that lasted for decades. These two power had conflicting ideologies which fueled the hostilities.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion