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| 1947, March 10–April 24 |
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| The Moscow conference of the Big Four foreign ministers revealed considerable disagreement between the Soviet Union and the West on the German question. Notably, the Soviet demand for $10 billion in German reparations, to be paid from current production, ran counter to the U.S.-British policy of making western Germany economically self-supporting. The only agreement reached was on the formal abolition of the state of Prussia. | 1 |
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| June 2 |
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| A German Economic Council was created to direct bizonal economic reconstruction. | 2 |
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| Aug. 29 |
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| A revised plan for western German industry set the 1936 production level as the ultimate goal and raised the yearly figure for steel production. | 3 |
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| Oct. 5 |
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| Elections in the Saar brought victory to the Christian People's Party and the Socialists, and was seen as a popular endorsement of the new Saar constitution adopted previously by these parties. | 4 |
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| Nov. 25–Dec. 15 |
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| Another unsuccessful meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in London ended in open disagreement over German peace terms. Economic issues in general, and reparations in particular, constituted the main stumbling block in formulating a coordinated plan for the administration of the four Allied zones. | 5 |
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