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Allies split Germany into four zones ruled by the US, UK, USSR, and France
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United Nations was started as an international organization to prevent wars.
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The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism.
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Churchill coined the term ¨Iron Curtain¨ that was the boundry separating communist Easten Eurpe from Capitalist Weatern Europe.
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Was a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatend or external opponents.
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A US program to give assistance to help European counties rebuild after the war and was announced by Secretary of State George Marshall.
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Congress apprved the 12.5 billion dollar plan only after communists took ver Czechoslovakia.
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The Western Allies planned to bein circulation of a new currency in thier zones of Germany.
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US and USSR began using propganda, spies, diplomacy, and secret operation to outmaneuver one another.
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US joined with 10 Weatern European Nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic treaty organization, a defensive military alliance.
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The USSR admitted defeat and lifted the blockade.
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The USSR tested its first atomic 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, resurrecting Soviet fears of a strong Germny.
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USSR formed own alliance whcih included all of Easten Europe and East Germany.
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Soviets developed an intercontinental balistic missile which was capable of hitting the US.
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Soviets used ICBM to launch the first satellite into space.
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US launched first satellite.
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US spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers)was shot down over USSR and Pwers spent two years in Soviet prison for espionage.
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Soviets erected the Berlin Wall to separate communist East Berlin from capital West Berlin.
