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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt suffers a stroke and dies.
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U.S. President Truman gives a tungue-lashing to Soviet Minister Molotov thath he was determined to take a tougher stance with the Soviets than his predecessor had.
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At the Potsdam Conference U.S. President Truman informs Soviet Union leader Stalin that the U.S. has nuclear weapons.
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Potsdam Conference ends with the Potsdam agreement that organizes the division and reconstruction of Europe after WW2. New boundaries of Poland are agreed.
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President Truman gives permission for the worlds second and last military use of an atomic weapon against te Japanese city of Nagasak in order to try to secure a swift Japanese unconditional surrender in the end of the second World War.
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The Japanese surrnder uncoditionally to the U.S. on board the U.S.S. Missouri to representative general Douglas MacArthur.
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The Republic of Austriua is reconstructed with its 1937 borders but dividedinto 4 zones of control:American, British, French, and Soviet.
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Enver Hoxha lares the peoples Republic of Albania with himself as Prime Minister.
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Stalin makes his election speech in whch he states that capitalism and imperalism make future wars inevitable
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Winston Churchill warned of thedescent of an Iran Curtain across Europe
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British Soldiers withdrawn from their zone of occupation in Southern Iran Soviet Soldiers remain in their Northern Sector.
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Soviet forces evacuate Iran after a Crisis.
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Phillipines gains independence from U.S. and begins fighting communists.
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In a speech known as the restatement of policy on germany in stuttgart James Byrnes U.S. secretary of state republicates the Morgenthan Plan
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The America and British zones of control in Germany are united to form the Bizone also known as Bizonia
