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The Yalta conference occurs deciding the post war status of germany.
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President Franklin D.Roosevelt suddenly suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and dies.
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The united nations Charter is adopted in San Francisco , California by representatives of 51 countries.
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General Douglass MacArthur serves as " supreme commander" of japan as the country adopts a new democratic constitution.
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British prime minister winston gives his famous "iron curtain" speech at a college graduation in Fulton Missouri.
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Begins fighting communist rebels.
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The united states and great britain agree to merge their respective german zones of occupation.
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In a speech later remembered as the truman doctrine, officially establishing the world wide containmentof communism.
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The us extends 400 million of military aid to greece and turkey signalling its intent to contain communism in the mediterranean.
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The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
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In 1949, the prospect of further communist expansion prompted the united states and 11 other western nations.
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Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
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In east Berlin, a general strike devolvs into rioting as demonstrations begin to demand free electrons from the communist goverment.
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President Dwight Eisenhower publicly articulates their "Domino Theory" in reference to the threat of communism gains in indochina.
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The soviet union and its affilliated comunist nations in eatsern europe founded a rival alliance.
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This is where the US and the soviets had an intense rivalvry about space and who can get the farthest first. Soviets started with the lead with soutnik. However when they kept competing it actually brought them together.
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This is where the US’s CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets and the Soviets shot it down and this lead to an embarrassing conference between US and Soviets. (Embarrassing for the US).
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The bay of pigs invasion refers tpo the CIA sponsored American attack of the cuban goverment in order to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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The us and the soviets each back a diffrerent side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 0lympics.
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The east german communist leaders insisted that east Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution.
