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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met and decided to defeat Germany by carrying on the war in two fronts. The United States and Great Britain would attack from the West, and the Soviets would attack from the East.
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22 Nazi leaders were tried with crimes against peace and humanity. In the end, 12 were sentenced to death, 7 sentenced to life in prison, and 3 were acquitted.
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Yalta and decided to divide Austria and Germany into zones of military occupation.
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Representatives of 51 different countries met in San Francisco. This General Assembly agreed on a charter for the United Nations. By October, enough nations had ratified the charter.
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Allied leaders met to discuss a postwar settlement.
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The struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was also a struggle between communism and democracy.
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President Truman spoke before Congress and went on to set forth a policy that declared that the US must consider the spread of communism to be a threat to democracy.
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Soviets established the Communist Information Bureau, or Cominform, to oppose the Marshall Plan. It included all of Europe's communist paries, It created tension between communist and noncommunist parties in Europe, and it was unsuccessful in opposing the Marshall Plan.
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The US formed a new plan of massive economic assistance because Western leaders feared that the long lasting poverty from WWII would drive Europeans into communist parties
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The United States and Great Britain organized the Berlin Airlift to supply West Berlin during the blockade.
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In the summer of 1949, the Soviets denoted their first atomic bomb.
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Twelve Western nations signed the treaty creating the North Atlantic Threat Organization. They agreed that if one member nation were attacked all of the NATO members would take action against the aggressor.
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Germany was divided into East and West. The Western Allies took control of West Germany, and the Soviets took control of East Germany.
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Troops of the Chinese Communist Party defeated the Chinese Nationalist government, driving the Nationalists off to Taiwan.
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North Korean communist forces invade South Korea.
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The representatives of the Eastern Bloc adopted a 20-year mutual defense agreement. The Warsaw Pact troops strongly outnumbered NATO troops in Europe.
