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Allies split Germany into four zones rules by the United States, United Kingdom, USSR, and France.
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United Nations was created as an international orginazation to prevent war.
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The United States drops two atomic bombs on Japan beginning the nuclear age.
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Stailin openly declared the imcompability of communism and capitilism triggering the Cold War.
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Churchill coined the term ¨Iron Curtain¨ to describe the boundary separating communist Eastern Europe from capatilist Western Europe.
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The Truman Doctrine was a policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal and external opponets.
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The Marshell Plan helped countries rebuild after the war and was announced by Secretary of State George Marshell.
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Congress approves the $12.5 billion plan only after communists take over Czechoslovkia.
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Western allies plan to begin circulation of a new currency in their zones of Germany.
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Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift- a massive operation of flying food and supplies into West Berlin to sustain the whole city.
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United States and USSR begin using spies, properganda, and secret operations to outmanuver each other.
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Unites States joins 10 western European nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: a defensive military alliance.
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USSR admits defeat by lifting the blockade.
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The USSR tests it's first atomic bomb.
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United States develops the H-Bomb
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The USSR develops H-bomb.
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West Germany is addmitted to NATO, resurrecting Soviets fear of a strong Germany.m
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USSR forms it's own aliance called the Warsaw Pact, which includes all of Eastern Europe and East Germany.
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USSR develops an intercontinetal ballistic missle which is capable of hitting the United States.
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Soviets use an ICMB to launch the first staellite into space .
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United States launches it's first satellite.
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United States spy plane was shot down over the USSR and Francis Gary Powers spends two years in Soviet prison for espionage.
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USSR erected the Berlin Wall to separate communist East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin.
