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Harry Truman became US President
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Nazi Germany surrendered
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Beginning of US atomic diplomacy
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Unilateral US action without giving advance notice to USSR
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Communism vs Capitalism 'inevitable' - also known as Bolshoi Speech
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By Winston Churchill
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By Soviet ambassador in Washington, Nikolai Novikov, stressing the dangers of possible U.S. economic and military domination worldwide
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By James Byrnes, the United States Secretary of State
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Beginning of US global containment of communism
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By George Marshall - European Recovery Programme (ERP)
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Communist Information Bureau
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By Andrei Zhdanov - also known as Zhdanov Doctrine
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Established the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency
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Unilateral currency reform in West Germany by Western powers
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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA)
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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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Federal Republic of Germany - formal division of Germany
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Western powers did not intervene
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Military alliance of Soviet bloc
