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