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Germany divided into four zones, each ruled by the US, Britain, France, and the USSR.
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The UNited Nations started as an international organization to prevent wars.
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The United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, begining the nuclear age.
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism.
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To describe the boundary separating communists in Eastern Europe from capitalists in Western Europe.
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The U.S. policy giving economical and military aid to free nations.
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The Marshall Plan was announced by secretary of state George Marshall.
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Congress approved the &12.5 billion plan only after communists took over Czechoslovakia.
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Western Allies planned to begin circulation of a new currentcy in their zones of Germany.
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Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, a massive operation of flying food and supplies to West Berlin to sustain the whole city.
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The United States and USSR began using spies, propoganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another.
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The US joined with 10 European nations and Canada to form NATO, a defencive military alliance.
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The USSR addmited defeat by lifting the blockade.
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The United States tested its first atomic bomb.
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The United States developed its H-bomb.
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The USSR developed its H-bomb.
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Western Germany admits to NATO resurvecting soviet fears of a strong Germany.
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The USSR formed its own allience which included all of Eastern Europe and Eastern Germany.
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ICBM was capabe of hitting the US.
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Soviets used ICBM to launch the first satellite into space.
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In 1958 the US launched its first satellite into space.
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(CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR. Powers spent 2 years in Soviet prison.
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Soviets erected the Berlin wall to separate communist in East Berlin from capitalists in West Berlin.
