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