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Allies slpit Germany into 4 zones ruled by US, UK, USSR, and France
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United Nations was started as an international org. to prevent wars
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The US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, beginning the nuclear age
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering the cold war.
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Churchill coined the term ¨ iron curtain ¨ to describe the boundary seperating communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Western Europe
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The Truman Doctrine was a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal 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. Announced by Secretary of State Gearge Marshall
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Congress approved the $12.5 billion planonly after communists took over Czechoslovakia
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Wetern Allies planned to begin circulation of a new currency in their zones of Germany
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The Western Allies begin 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, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another
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US joined with 10 Western European nations and Canada to form NATO, a defensive military alliance
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USSR admitted defeat by lifting the blockade
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The USSR tested its first atomic bomb
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US developed the H-bomb
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USSR develope their 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 Warsaw
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Soviets developed an intercontinental bullistic missile (ICBM)
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Soviets used an ICBM to launch the first satellite into space
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US launched its first sattelite
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US spy plane (CIA U-2 plane piloted 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 communists East Berlin from West Berlin
