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Soviet union and the United States formed an alliance during world 2 after Hitler invaded the Soviet union.
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British prime minister Winston churchill, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet premier Josef Stalin agreed on a military plan to end the war.
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Allies defeated Germany in June, Stalin established Soviet controlled governments in Eastern European countires occupied by his Red Army, including Poland.
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Germany placed under watch, military rule and in divided into zones reflecting positions of occupying armies.
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United States tested the first atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In august U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japanese cities.
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The iron curtain decended across the European continent behind that line all the anicent states.
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Speech on national television stating that it was, obligation for the United States to support free peoples.
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17 Billion in aid for the economic recovery of europe.
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Greece and Turkey were fighting off communist rebellions, Great Britain had been supporting the Greek Communists.
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NSC 68 warned that Soviet military capability was now, rapidly increase atomic capability. US spending to $50 billion a year.
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Great Britian and the Unnited States announced plans to introduce, new form of money in Germany.
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United States began helping Berlin with suppiles, but at the same time trying to not start a armed conflict with the Soviet Union.
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The Soviets closed all road, rail, and water to and from the city. Cut off all suppiles of fuel, power and food.
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United Staes joines, Westeren nations such as Canada, France, Great Britian, Italy and the netherlands.
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Ended when the Soviets created their own nuclear weapon.
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Maos Communist government had allied itself with the Soviet Union, both signed a mutual defense and aid agreement.
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After about a year, Stalin decided to reopen the routes for Western Berlin.
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The war had increased the American alarm over the spread of communism in Asia.
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Soviet Union provided arms for the North Korea and they then invaded South Korea. US troops pushed north Korean troops back.
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The US tested a even more powerful nuclear device, the hydrogen bomb,
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Now competeing with U.S. to defeat the other in the event of war.
enough power to destory the world. -
Macarthur called for a all out war against china. Soviest might come in and cause a third world war. Korean war ended instalemate.
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Military alliance such as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, known as the Warsaw treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact.
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The Hungarian citizens rioted back and demanded more freedom from their Communist government .
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The Soviet Union built a wall, called the Berlin wall, which divided the East and West Berlin.To Prevent people from escaping the west.
