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