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USA started developing Warheads
In 1945, The USA started making weapons right and left. In the span of 1945 through 1990 the US made 70,000 or more weapons. -
USA used their first atomic bomb in war
President Truman gives permission to use their first military use of an atomic weapon in war. They bombed the Japinese city of Hiroshima. -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill gives a speech in Fulton, MO warning the world of the Iron Curtain that existed across the European continent. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine with giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. This speech is know as the Truman Doctrine. -
Marshall Plan
George Marshall creates a plan to help the war-ravaged countries in Western Europe. -
NATO was formed
NATO, [North Atlantic Treaty Orginization] was formed. It includes the countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States to try to resist communist expansion. -
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Korean War
It was the result of political divison of Korea by an agrement with the allies at the end of the pacific war. -
Berlin Wall was built
Germany split in half. The Eastern side became communist and the Western side became a demcracy. The Berlin Wall was built to make sure no one left the East to fo to the West, or the other way around. -
Cuban MIssle Crisis
The Soviets have secretly been installing military bases, including nuclear weapons, on Cuba. Kennedy orders a "quarantine" of the island that brings the US and the USSR to nuclear war. In the end, both sides come to a compromise. The Soviets back down and agree to take away their nuclear missiles from Cuba. While they get a secret agreement by Kennedy pledging to take away similar American missiles from Turkey. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
This is a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to promote cooperation through out the world.This treaty includes 190 parties. Including the 5 nuclear-weapon states. {USA, Russia, United Kingdom, France, and China.] -
Berlin Wall Fell
The Berlin wall that separated the Eastern communists and the Western democracy of Germany. With that wall falling everything messed up. People started going on the other side and making new countries.
