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Allies split Gemany into 4 zones
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United Nations was started as an international organization to prevent war.
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US droppped 2 atomic bobs on Japan beginning the nuclear age.
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering Cold War.
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CHurchill coined the term ¨Iron Curtain¨ to describe the boundary dividing Commmunist Eastern Europe and Western Europe
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Truman Docterine was a US policy of giving economc, and military and to free nations threatened by internal and external opponets
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A US program to give assistance to help European countries rebuild after war. Announced by Secretary of State George Marshall
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Congree approved the $12.5 billion plan, Marshall Plan, only after communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948
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The Western Allies planned to begin circulation of a new curency in their zones of Germany.
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The Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, a massive operation of lfying food and supplies into West Berlin to sustain the whole city
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US and USSR began using spies, proganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another.
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US joined with 10 Western European nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a defensive military alliance
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USSR admitted defeat by lifting the blockade
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THe USSR tested its first atomic bomb.
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US developed H-Bomb in 1952
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USSR developed H-Bomb in 1953
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West Germany was admitted to NATO in 1954, resurrecting Soviet Fears of a strong Germany.
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USSR formd its own alliance in May 1955 called the Warsaw Pact, which included all the Eastern Europe and East Germany.
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Soviets developed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in August 1957, which was capable of hitting the US
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The Soviets used an ICBM to launch the first satellite into space Its mission was to gather data on upper atmospheric conditions.
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US launched its first satellite in 1958
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A US spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, and Powers spent 2 years in Soviet prison for espionage.
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Soviets erected the Berlin Wall in August 1961 to separate communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin.
