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Creation of the United Nations
Council of nations designed to avoid another world war by creating a place to solve problems peacefully. -
Berlin Airlift
East Germany cut off Berlin from the rest of the world and the US airlifted supplies to berlin -
Nato was formed
Military defense alliance of US, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom -
Soviet Union tests first atomic bomb
Soviet Union now has Atomic Bombs -
Communists win Chinese civil war
China became a Communist Country -
korean war ends
north and south remained divided and not all of korea became communist. -
The warsaw pact was formed
the Soviet union Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria made an alliance -
Sputnik launch
first artificial satellite launched -
U2 incident
stealth plane was shot down during an aerial reconnaissance mission and the CIA pilot was captured -
Berlin Wall
Berlin wall was put up to keep people from going to West germany which was free