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| 1952, Jan. 11 |
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| The West German Bundestag ratified the Schuman Plan by a vote of 232 to 143. The Communists and Socialists voted against it. | 1 |
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| March 10 |
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| The USSR, in notes to the United States, Great Britain, and France, called for a four-power conference to discuss the unification and rearmament of Germany. On March 23 the Western powers replied that they would consider the establishment of an all-German government only on the basis of free elections; that such a government should not be empowered to rearm but could enter security agreements with other powers; and that the German borders drawn at the 1945 Potsdam Conference were subject to revision. | 2 |
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| April 10 |
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| The USSR continued the exchange of notes on Germany that had begun on March 10. The new note proposed that all-German elections be held under a four-power commission rather than United Nations supervision. It rejected Western views on the rectification of Germany's 1945 frontiers. | 3 |
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| May 26 |
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| Nine months of negotiations with Britain, France, and the United States ended in the signature at Bonn of the contractual agreement giving West Germany internal independence. | 4 |
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