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After WWII, Germany had been divided into 4 zones, each ruled by US, Britian, France, and the USSR.
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United Nations was created as international organizaion to prevent wars.
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Uited Nation had just been created.
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U.S dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, beginning the nuclear age.
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitilsm, triggering the Cold War.
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In March, 1946, Churchill coined the term " Iron Curtian" to describe the boundary separating communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Westerm Europe.
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The Truman Doctrine was a US policy of giving econimic and military aid to free nations threatened by interanl or external opponents.
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The Marshall Plan was a US program to give assistance 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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The Western Allies planned to begin circulation of a new currency in thier zones of Germany
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The Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, flying food into Western Berlin.
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US and USSR began using spies, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another.
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US joined with 10 Western European nations and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) a defensive military alliance.
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The USSR tested its first atomic bomb.
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US developed H-bomb.
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USSR developed H-bomb
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West Germany was admitted to NATO, resurrecting Soviet fears of a strong Germany.
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USSR formed its own alliance called the Warsaw Pact, wich included all of Eastern Europe and Eastern Germany.
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Soviets developed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) wich was capable of hitting the US.
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The Soviets used an ICBM to launch the first satellite into space.
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US launched its first satellite.
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A US spy plane (CIA U-2 plane pitoled by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, and powers spent two years in Soviet prison for espionage.
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Soviets erected the Berlin Wall to seperate communist East Berlin from Capitilist West Berlin.
