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Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Krimea. They decided to devide Germany in four areas of occupation in orther to achieve it's unconditional defeat.
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Churchill, Stalin and Truman met at Potsdam
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The US dropped an a-bomb first on Hiroshima on August 6th and then on Nagasaki on Agust 9th
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Churchill declared that from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron curtain had descended along the continent.
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It was made to prevent the spread of Communism and protect the lives of “Freedom loving peoples”. It set the language in which Americans would view the world: America = free, Communism = tyrannical.
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The Communist Information Bureau was an international alliance that promoted ideological unity among the communist parties in Europe, giving the USSR more political control over them.
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Response to economic chaos in Europe, used US aids to fight economic instability. Western Europe was rebuilt and by 1950 production levels and industry eclipsed to pre-war numbers. Japan was also rebuilt.
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Stalin cut-off the roads to West Berlin
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In response to Stalin’s blockade, Americans flew the supplies to West Berlin.
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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was founded in by the USSR. Its aim was to improve the economy of the countries that were part of the Soviet Bloc
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Alliance between the US and the Western European nations, it gave them perision to station American troops on these countries if necessary.
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The US no longer had a monopoly on that aspect.
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Mutual defense trety between China and the USSR
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Both sides agreed an armistice and recognized the 38th parallel as a temporary dividing line between North Korea and South Korea. However,the division has not been eliminated and remains to this day.