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Allies split Germanyin four zones ruled by US, UK, USSR and France.
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Uited Nations was started as an international organization to prevent wars.
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US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan beginning the nuclear age.
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Satlin declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering the cold war.
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Churchill coined the term ' iron curtain' to describe the boundary separating communist East Europe from capitalist Weast Europe.
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The Truman doctrine was a US policy of giving economic and military aid to "free" nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
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The Marshall plan was a US program to give assistece to help Europe countries rebuid after the war.
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Congress approved the 12,5 billion plan only after the communsts took over Czechoslovakia.
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The weast allies begin the Berlin airlift, a massive operations of flying food and supplies into weast Berlin to sustain the whole city.
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the weast allies planned to begin circulation of a new currncy in their zones of Germany.
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US and USSR began using spies, propanganda, diplomacy and secret operations to outmaneuver one other
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The US joined wirh 10 weast European nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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USSR adimited defeat by lifting the blockade.
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The USSr tested the first atomic bomb.
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US developed the H-Bomb
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USSR developed the H-Bomb
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The Weast Germany addimited to NATO, ressurecting sovietic fears of a strong Germany
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USSR formed its own alliance called warsaw pact which included all of East Europe and East Germany.
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The USSR developed an intercontinental missile (ICBM) which was capable of hitting the US.
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The Sovietics used an KBM to launch the first satellite into space.
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Us launch its first satellite in space.
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A US plane spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, and Powers spend two years in Sovietic prision for espionage.
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Sovietics erected the Berlin Wall to separate communist East Berlin from captalist Weast Berlin.
