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Germany Divided
Allies split Germanyin four zones ruled by US, UK, USSR and France. -
U.N Created
Uited Nations was started as an international organization to prevent wars. -
Nuclear Age
US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan beginning the nuclear age. -
Incopatibility
Satlin declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering the cold war. -
Iron Curtain
Churchill coined the term ' iron curtain' to describe the boundary separating communist East Europe from capitalist Weast Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine was a US policy of giving economic and military aid to "free" nations threatened by internal or external opponents. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was a US program to give assistece to help Europe countries rebuid after the war. -
Money to Europe
Congress approved the 12,5 billion plan only after the communsts took over Czechoslovakia. -
Airlift
The weast allies begin the Berlin airlift, a massive operations of flying food and supplies into weast Berlin to sustain the whole city. -
New currency in Germany
the weast allies planned to begin circulation of a new currncy in their zones of Germany. -
Secret Operations
US and USSR began using spies, propanganda, diplomacy and secret operations to outmaneuver one other -
NATO
The US joined wirh 10 weast European nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Adimission
USSR adimited defeat by lifting the blockade. -
USSR
The USSr tested the first atomic bomb. -
H-Bomb
US developed the H-Bomb -
H-Bomb
USSR developed the H-Bomb -
REsurrecting the Sovietic fears
The Weast Germany addimited to NATO, ressurecting sovietic fears of a strong Germany -
Warsaw Pact
USSR formed its own alliance called warsaw pact which included all of East Europe and East Germany. -
Intercontinental Balistic Missile
The USSR developed an intercontinental missile (ICBM) which was capable of hitting the US. -
Sputnik
The Sovietics used an KBM to launch the first satellite into space. -
Explorer I
Us launch its first satellite in space. -
Sovietic Prision
A US plane spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, and Powers spend two years in Sovietic prision for espionage. -
Berlin Wall
Sovietics erected the Berlin Wall to separate communist East Berlin from captalist Weast Berlin.
