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United Nations was started as an international orginization to prevent wars.
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US drops atomic bombs on Japan beginning the nuclear age.
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Allies split Germany into 4 zones each ruled by US, UK, USSR, and France.
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Stalin declared incomposition and started the COld War
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The Iron Curtain seperated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
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A US policy of giving economic and millitary aid to free nations.
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US program to give help to European countries to rebuild after war.
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Western Allies began the constructipon of a new currency.
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Congress approved the $12.5 billion plan after communnists took over Czechslvakia.
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Western Allies fly food and supplies into western Berlin.
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US joined with 10 western europe nations and Cananda to form NATO, defensive millitary alliance.
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US and USSR began using spys, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations.
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USSR admitted defeat by lifting blockade.
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USSR tested first atomic bomb and truman wanted to make a more powerful bomb.
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US created H bomb.
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USSR comes out with their own H Bomb.
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West Germany was admitted to NATO ressurecting soviet fear of strong Germnay.
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USSR formed own alliance called the Warsaw Pact which involved all of eeastern europe and all of eastern Germany.
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Soviets devolop ICBM
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Soviets launch first ever satelite into space.
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US launches their first satelite.
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US spy plane was shot down over the USSR. Francis Gary Powers who piloted it was kept prisoner for 2 years in USSR.
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Soviet eected Berlin Wall to seperate East Berlin from West Berlin.