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United Nations started as international organization
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Allies split germany into 4 zones ruled by US, UK, USSR.
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The US drop atomic bomb on Japan and began the Nuclear age.
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Stalin declared commuism captilism.
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Churchill coined term."Iron curtain to describe the boundry separating communist Eastern Europe from capatilist Western Europe
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announce secratary of state George Marshall
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The Truman Doctrine was a policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
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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 their zones of Germany
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The Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, a massive operation of flying food and supplies into Western Berlin to sustain the whole city.
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US and USSR begin using spies, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations to outmaneuver one another.
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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 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, which included all of Eastern Europe and East Germany.
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The Soviets used an ICBM to launch the first satalite into space.
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Soviets developed an intercontinential ballistic missile (ICBM) which was capable of hitting the US.
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US launched its first satelite.
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A US spy plane (CIA U-2 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 comminist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin.