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Divids Germany into four occupation zones, free elections in all countries held by Nazi Germany, the United Nations created,
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Harry S. Truman claims he is going to be tougher on the soviets than FDR was.
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Harry S. Truman informs Stalin that the U.S. has nuclear weapons
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Harry S. Truman gives permission for the military to drop military bombs on the city of Hiroshima.
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Truman gives permission for the final nuclear bomb dropping on Nagasaki
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The Japanese surrender
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Austria is reconstituted and divided into 4 areas of control; US, British, French, and Soviet
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The Phillippines gain independence from the US and begins fighting communist Huk rebels
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Soviets violates agreements between them and the US
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Truman gives aide to Greece and Turkey from them falling under the Soviet sphere
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Withdraw soldiers from Korea,
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The communist party takes hold of Czechoslovakia
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Nato is formed to resist communist expansion
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Reaches its peak with a lot of american celebrities accepting communism
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Truman announces he will provide aid to "free peoples"
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UK successfully tests atomic bomb, becomes second nuclear power
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Stalin dies, power struggle to succeed him
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US launches first nuclear ship
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Soviet Union and other communist parties join a rival alliance
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South Vietnam was an ally of US, North with Soviet
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US spy plane shot down, US lied about it's reasons, but it was later revealed it was for surveillance.
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CIA backed invasion on Cuba, fails.
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To keep East German's leaving to the West.
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Soviets have been secretly hiding nuclear arms in places such as Cuba, Kenedy tries to isolate it, exacerbates the situation.
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The wall is torn down as swiftly as it was built
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Gorbachev resigns on 12/25. The republics become sovereign.
