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Allies split Germany into 4 zones ruled by the U.S., the UK, the USSR, and France.
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United Nations was started as international orginization to prevent wars.
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US dropped 2 atomic bomb jin Japan to begin nuclear age.
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Stalin declared that communism and capitalism imcompatible.
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Winston Churchilll coined to the term "iron curtain" to describe the border of Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
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Harry Truman made a policy to give financial and millitary aid to free nations threated by internal or extrernal opponets.
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Secretary of State George Marshall annouces plan to give assistance to help European countries rebuild after WWII.
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The $12.5 billion plan made by George Marshall is approved after Communist took over Czechoslovakia.
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The Western Allies began dropping food in West Berlin to feed city since access to the city had been blocked by USSR.
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The Western Allies begin cirrculating new currancy in thier zone of Germany.
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The US and the USSR begin using spies, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver each other.
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USSR test it's first atomic bomb.
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The US and 10 Western European form NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Orginization, a defensive military alliance.
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The Soviets lift blockade in Wesern Berlin.
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The United States discovers Hydrogen Bomb.
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The USSR discovers the Hydrogen Bomb.
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Western Germany was admitted into NATO, fearing USSR of Germany becoming an over powering country again.
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USSR forms own alliance of East Germany and all of the other Eastern European countries.
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The Soviets develop Intercontiental Ballisitic Missle.
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Soviets use IBM to send first satalite to space.
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The US launches first satalite in space
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US Spy Plane flown by Francis Power shot down over USSR and Powers spent 2 years in Soviet prison.
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The Berlin Wall built to divide Communist East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin.
