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UN started US International Organization to prevent wars
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Allies with Germany into 4 zones. US, Britain, France, USSR
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US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, beginning Nuclear Age
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Declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering the cold war
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Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" to boundary seperating communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Western Europe.
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Truman Doctrine was a US Policy of giving an economic an military aid to free nations
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Announced by Secretary of state. Designed to feed starving Europeans and help them rebuild
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They approoved of the 12.5 billion plan only after communists took over Czechoslovakia
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Planned to begin circlation of a new currancy in the zones of Germany.
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Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, massive operation flying food and supplies.
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Canada forms (NATO), a defensive military alliance
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Spies propanganda diplomacy, secret operations
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By lifting the blockade. The Cold War expanded and dictated all aspects of US and Soviet foreign policy
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US developed H-Bomb
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USSR developed H-Bomb
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Ressurecting Soviet Fears of Strong Germany
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Formed own alliance. It was called Warsaw Pact
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(ICBM) Which was capable of hitting the US. (ICBM) means (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
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They launched the first satellite into space. The first satellite was called SPUTNIC
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Us launched it's first satellite
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US spy plane (CIA U-2 Plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, Powers spent 2 years in Soviet Prison for Espionage
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They erected the Berlin Wall to seperate communist East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin. Soviets closed the border between the 2 Germans to prevent " Brain Drain"
