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This was a meeting bewteen Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt to discuss what would happen at the end of the war. Some topics that were duscussed includes fate of Poland and The Unuted Nations.
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V E Day was a victory in Europe when Germany surrendered to the Russian Army.
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This conference formally divided Germany and Austria into four zones. The Russian Polish border was also determined and Korea was divided into Soviet and American zones.
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This was an extremely important day because The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The U.S. dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki.
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On this day, the Japanese surrendered, which brought World War II to an end.
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Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam to be an independent republic.
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On this day, Winston Churchill delivered a speech known as the 'Sinews Peace' that has the famous phrase "an iron cutain has descended on Europe".
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President Truman made a promise to help any country that was facing a Communist takeover.
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The Marshall Plan was a program that was offered by The United States to any European country. It was rejected by Stalin and ant Eastern Bloc country that was considering accepting would be punished. So, the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
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The USSR set up Cominform which was the Information Bureau of Communist and Worker's Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern Bloc.
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Russia's response to the merge of French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was ro cut all road and rail links to that sector. By doing this, it eant that everyone living in Western Berlin had no access to food and faced starvation. Food was brought by UK and US airplanes.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Joseph Stalin died at age 74 and was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
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Russia formally recognized the end of The Soviet Union.
