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After this invasion The Soviet Union and the United States formed an unlikely alliance regardless of their past relationship
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Great Britain supported the Greek government on its fight against Communists. Eventually Britian could not afford the funding and went to U.S. for help.
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British prime minister Winston Churchill, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin agreed on a military plan to end the war and a subsquent joint occupation of Germany.
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After this victory Stalin established a Soviet-controlled governments in Eastern European countries occupied by his Red Army which also included Poland.
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U.S. first tested the atomic bomb/a bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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The U.S. dropped the atomic bombs on the Japenese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing thousands of people and ending the war with Japan.
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Germany was placed under military rule and divided into zones broadly reflecting the positions of the occupying armies.
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Winston Churchill visited the U.S. in the springs of 1946 to deliver his famous Iron Curtain Speech. This was the talk about curtain of Soviet controlled countries.
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His speech was telling the U.S. to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
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This provided 17 billion dollars in aid for the economic recovery of Europe. Truman stated "We must be prepared to pay price of peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
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the NSC 68 was a secret document that would be, as one historian noted, a'blueprint for American policy in the Cold War."
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France, Great Britain, and U.S. announced a plan to introduce a new form of currency in Germany. This caused a protest from the Soviets.
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The Soviets protested by making a formal blockade of Berlin and Stalin cut off all supplies of fuel,power, and food to the people of West Berlin.
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U.S. began to airlift supplies to Berlin in attempt to aid West Berlin without starting an armed conflict with the Soviet Union.
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These western nations included Canada, france , Great Britain, Italy,and the Netherlands to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (NATO)
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It ended when the Soviets perfected their nuclear technology and developed a nuclear weapon of their own.
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Stalin reopened all the routes into Berlin after about a year of having them closed for protest of the new currency plan.
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Mao Zedong successfully led the communist Revolution in China and his government quickly allied with the Soviet Union. They both signed a mutual defense and economic aid agreement.
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With the arms provided by the Soviet Union, Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. This caused the U.S. to step in and aid South Korea.
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The Korean War increased American alarm over the spread of Communism in Asia.
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This bomb called the Hydrogen bomb was stronger than the previous nuclear device
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Soviet Union followed suit due to the creation of the hydrogen bomb of the United States.
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After about 3 years of this war it ended with inastalement between these rivals.
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These nations were Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and romania, known as the Warsaw Treaty Organization/Warsaw Pact
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Hungarian citizens began rioting and demanded more freedom from their Communist government. Also they threatened to return to a parliamentar democracy.
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The Soviet Union build a wall called the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to prevent people from escaping the West.
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Similar to the rioting of the Hungarian citizens the Soviet Union had to put down an uprising in Czechoslovakia.
