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Allies split Germany into 4 zones, each ruled by US, UK, USSR, and France
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United Nations was started as an international orginization to prevent future wars
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The Us dropped 2 Atomic bombs starting the nuclear Age
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Stalin openly declared incompatability between communisum and capatalism in early 1946 starting The Cold War
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Churchill described the boundarie sperating (communist) Eastern Eruope from (capitalist) Western Europe as an Iron Curtain
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Truman designed a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threateded by internal or or external opponents
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Announced in June 1947 Secretary of state Geroge Marshall declared that the US would help rebuild Eroupean Contries after the war
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In June 1948, the 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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In June of 1948 Western Allies aagreed on a new circolation of currancy
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Starting in 1949, Us and USSR began using spies, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another
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In April 1949, Us joined with 10 Western European nations and Canada to from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) a defensive military alliance
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In May of 1949 the USSR admitied defeat by lifiting the blockade
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In August of 1949 the USSR tested their first atomic bomb
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In 1954 West Germany was admitted to NATO which in turn resurected the fears of a strong Germany
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In 1955 the USSR created its own alliance called the war saw pact
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Soviets designed an International Belistics Missle In August of 1957 which had the capability of hitting the US
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In May of 1960 James Powers was shot down in a spy plane over the USSR then was held prisoner for two years
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The USSR set up The Berlin Wall to seperate West from East Berlin