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-The US obtains a commitment from the USSR to attack Japan.
- President Truman informs Germany that now the US possesses a powerful weapon.
- The US negotiates and obtains temporary division of Korea.
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After the surrender of Germany, the United Nations is established at a conference in San Francisco, initially bringing out 51 members.
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The Potsdam Company: Germany and Berlin, and Australia and Vienna are divided into 4 zones of occupation. The powers couldn't agree on how the country should be administered or what germany should pay or not.
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The US drops its first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan.
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The USSR invades Manchuria.
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The second atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki by the US.
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Japan surrenders and the Second World War ends.
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In Western Europe the Marshall Plan is promulgated, designed to provide credit to speed up the reconstruction and strength the US influence.
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Truman makes a speech in which he declares that the world is now divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes.
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The CIA is created to defend the country’s interests around the world
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Zhdanov, a Soviet representative, confirms that the world is now divided into two camps: the US and the Soviet Union.
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Stalin reacts to the creation of the CIA by founding the Cominform, an alliance of communist countries dominated by the USSR
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- Czechoslovakia falls into the Eastern Bloc.
- The US tries to create a federal, democratic state to stop the spread of communism. This future country will be included in the Marshall Plan.
- American airlift of supplies sustains West Berlin during Soviet blockade.
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The UK, France and the Benelux countries form an military alliance to repel any attack from the East.
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Stalin responses imposing a blockade on Western Berlin, which is still under Western occupation.
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United States, Canada and Western Europe form a military alliance to create NATO.
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The Federal Republic of Germany is officially created.
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The Soviets successfully test their first atomic bomb.
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Mao Zedong and the Communist party proclaim the People's Republic of China
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- The First Indochina War.
- The US organize the defense of South Korea.
- The US forms new alliances with the Philippines, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, fearing that it would have to intervene anywhere else.
- Korean War demonstrates new American policy to “contain" communism. 1953
- The US advocates for the installation of atomic weapons in Eastern Europe.
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The North Korean Army, supported by the USSR, begins its invasion of South Korea.
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Stalin dies without having prepared for succession. A period of instability follows.
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- Doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
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The Suez Canal becomes nationalized, leading to what is known as the Suez crisis. This event marks the end of The UK and France colonialism
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- The USSR sends the first satellite into space.
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- China beings bombing islands that were controlled by Taiwan, then the US pouts an end to the offensive.
- The Great Leap Forward.
- Khrushchev makes a visit to the US.
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- The USSR obtains authorization to deploy nuclear weapons in Cuba, which becomes a threat to the US. As a result, Kennedy deploys quarantine on the island, blocking the arrival of Soviet ships. Finally, an agreement is reached.
- The two powers begins a series of meetings to calm the situation.
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- After the disruption of communism in Indonesia, a bloody crackdown begins in which thousands of people died or were imprisoned in camps.
- The war in Vietnam intensifies. The US is forced to deploy up to 500,000 troops.