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UN was created
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The United Nations was created to prevent future wars.
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Stalin Openly declared the incompatability of communism and capitalizm triggered the cold war
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Churchill coined term the iron curtain to describe the boundary seperating Western and Eastern Europe.
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TD was a us policy of giving economic and milatary aid to free nations threatend by internal and external opponets
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George Marshall announced in JUne 1947 a plan to help Europe rebuild.
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Marshall plan approved after communist took over czechoslovkia. congress approved a 2.5 billion plan
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The western allies planned to begin circulation of a new currency in their zones in germany
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The western allies begin the Berlin aircraft, a massive operation of flying food and supplies into western Berlin to substain the whole city
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US and USSR begin using spies, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmanuver one another
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US joined with 10 Westrn European countries and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive milatary group
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USSR admits to defeate by lifting blockade
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USSR test its first A-Bomb
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US developed H-Bomb
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USSR developed H-Bomb
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West Germany was admitted to NATO in 1954, Resorectig soviet fears of a strong Germany
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USSR formed its own alliance called the waraw
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Soviets developed an intercontinental ballistic missile which could hit the US
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Soviets use ICBM to launch first satelite into space
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US launched satellite into space
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A US spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, and powers spent rwo years in soviet prison for espionage
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Soviets erected the Berlin Wall to seperate communist East Berlin from Capatalist West Berlin