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Germany Divided
Allies split Germany into 4 zones by US, UK, USSR, and France -
Beginning the nuclear age
US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan -
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Cold War timeline
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Uncreated
The United Nations were started as an international organization to prevent wars. -
Triggering the Cold War
Stalin declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism. -
Churchill's "Iron Curtain"
Iron Curtain was made to describe th boundry seperating communist (eastern) and capital (weastern) Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by international opponents. -
Rebuild after the war
Annouced by secretary of state George Marshall -
Czechoslovakia taken over
Congress approved $12.5 billion plan to rebuild -
New currency
Western allies began the circulation in their zones of Germany -
Berlin Airlift
Western allies began a massive opperation of flying food and supplies into west Berlin to sustain the whole city. -
Spies
The US and USSR began usig spies, propaganda, diplomacy, an secret operations to out manuver each other. -
NATO
US joined with 10 western European nations and canada to form NATO a defensive military allience. -
Defeat
USSR admitted defeat by lifting the blockade -
First atomic bomb
USSR tested first attomic bomb -
H-bomb
US developed the H-bomb -
H-Bomb
USSR developed H-bomb -
NATO
west Germany was admitted into NATO, Soviet fears of a strong Germany -
Warsaw Pact
USSR formed the Warsaw Pact which included eastern Europe and east Germany -
Ballistic missile
Soviets developed a intercomunicational capable of hitting the US. -
First satellite
Soviets used an ICBM to launch first satellite into space. -
First satallite
US launched first satallite -
Spy plane
Shot down over USSR Powers spent 2 years in soviet prision -
Berlin Wall
Erected the Berlin Wall to seperate Communist east Berlin from capital west Berlin