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Communist coup in Czechoslovaki
Communists tried to get control of he gov in Czechoslovaki by single party rule, taking over local government, or destroying independent civic organizations But communists could not get enough votes in first postwar election. When economy and state got better from war destruction, people started to not care or support communism Stalin tried to intimidate Czechoslovak leadership and threaten with blocking their resources from the marshall plan -
West Germany joins NATO
they started to need German troops that would help in the battle in the cold war against the Warsaw pact -
U2 INCIDENT
A United States U2 plane got caught spying on the soviets -
Washington-Moscow Hot Line established
The Hotline was established in the case of the cuban missle crisis that thery had a direct wrning system