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The War officially ended with Germany's surrender on 8 May, 1945
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The S.U. and the U.S. form an alliance (during WII), despite previously being enemies due to differing economic and political ideologies. Codenamed Operation "Barbarossa"
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Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Josef Stalin in the S.U.
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Allies defeat Germany. Stands for Victory in Europe.
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The U.S. successfully tests the first a-bomb in Almogordo, New Mexico.
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Japan surrenders to the Allies.
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Winston Churchill visits U.S. and delivers this speech attacking the S.U.
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Early 1947, the governments of Greece and Turkey were fighting off Communist rebellions.
Great Britain was supporting the Greek government, but soon could no longer fund them. Britain appealed to the U.S. for help. President Truman makes speech called the Truman Doctrine on national television stating the U.S. was obligated to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities [Communists] or by outside pressures." -
President Harry S. Truman's National Security Council drafts this secret document. One historian noted, that it would be a "blueprint for American policy in the Cold War."
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U.S. introduces this to provide $17 billion to aid Europe's economic recovery. "We must be prepared to pay the price of peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war." - Truman
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France, Great Britain, and the U.S. announce plans to create a new form of German currency without consulting the S.U. As a result, Soviets formally withdrew from the Allied Control Council today.
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In protest of the Allies introducing a new currency in West Berlin. This formal blockade closed off all roads, rail, and water routes to and from Berlin.
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U.S. begins airlifting supplies in order to aid West Berlin without starting a conflict with the S.U.
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The U.S. joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance. Includes western nations such as Canada, France, Great Britian, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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All routes reopened to and from Berlin by Stalin.
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The American monopoly on nuclear weapons ends when the S.U. develops nuclear technology and nuclear weapons along with it.
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Lead by Mao Zedong.
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Supported by the S.U., Communist North Korea invades South Korea.
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U.S. successfully tests a more powerful nuclear weapon.
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Ends in a stalemate.
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The S.U. forms the Warsaw Treaty Organizations (aka Warsaw Pact), a military alliance, in response to NATO. Includes Eastern European nations such as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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S.U. builds the Berlin Wall, divding East and West Berlin in order to prevent people from escaping to the west.
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S.U. invades Czechoslovakia.
