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FDR dies in Warm Springs, GA
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Harry S. Truman tells Vyacheslav Molotov that he will be less lenient with the soviets than FDR had been.
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Japan surrenders after being hit by two atomic bombs
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term "cold war" coined
Author George Orwell (Animal farm, 1984) coins the term "cold war" in the british newspaper "the tribune", contemplating a world in which everybody lives in fear of the threat of nuclear war. -
Marshal Plan Established
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cold war
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NATO is formed
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal and others form the North Atlantic Traty Organization to resist communist expansion. -
soviets test first atomic bomb
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KGB is formed
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Berlin Wall Falls