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United Nations
The united nations had just been created -
Atomic Bombs
In 1945 the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, beginning the nucear age -
Germany Divided
Allies split germany into 4 zones rules by US,UK,USSR, and france -
stalin riggered cold war
stalin openly declared the incompadibility of communism and capatalism, triggering the cold war in early 1946 -
the iron curtain
churchhill coined the term ¨iron curtain¨ to describe the boundary serating communist eastern europe from capatalist wester europe -
truman doctrine
the truman doctrine was a US policy of giving economic and millitary aid to free nations threatned by internal or external opponents -
marshall plan announced
the marshall plan was a US program to give assisstance to help european countries rebuild after the war -
marshall plan approved
congress approved the 12.5 billion plan only after communists took over czechoslovakia -
new currency in europe
in june 1948 the western allies planned to begin circulation of a new currency in their zones of germany -
berlin airlift
the western allies began the berlin airlift, a massive operation of flying food and supplies into west berlin to sustain the whole city. -
us vs ussr
US and USSR began using spies,propoganda,diplomacy, and secret operations to outmanuver each other -
NATO
US joined with 10 western european nations and canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Orginization (NATO), a defensive millitary alliance -
defeated....
the USSR admits defeat by lifting the blockade on berlin -
ussr nuclear bomb
the USSR tested its first atomic bomb -
H-bomb for america
the us first developed the H-bomb in 1952 -
the soviet respose
the USSr develops the H-bomb in 1953 -
germany gets in
west germnay was admitted to NATO in 1954, resurrecting soviet fears of a strong germany -
Warsaw Pact
the USSR formed its own alliance called the warsaw pact which included all of easter europe and east germany -
ICBM
the svoiets developed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which was capable of hitting the US -
into space
the soviets used an ICBM to launch the first satellite into space, the satellite was called sputnik -
expoler-1
the US launched its first satellite -
Captured!
a US spy plane (piloted by gary powers) was shot down over USSR and powers spent two years in soviet prison for espionoge -
The Wall
soviets erected the berlin wall in 1961 to seperate communist east berlin from capatalist west berlin
