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After WWII, Germany had been divided into four zones, each ruled by the US, Britain, France, and the USSR.
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United Nations was started as an international organization to prevent wars.
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US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan beginning the nuclear age.
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Stalin openly declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism.
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Churchill coined this term to describe the boundary seperating communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Western Europe.
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A US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
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US program to give assistance to help European countries after the war, announced by Secretary of State George Marshall.
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Congress approved The Marshall Plan only after communists took over Czechoslavakia.
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The Western Allies planned to begin circulation of a new currency in their zones of Germany.
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Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, an 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 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive military alliance.
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USSR admitted defeat by lifting the blockade.
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The USSR tests its first atomic 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, included all of Eastern Europe and East Germany.
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Soviets developed the ICBM, which was capable of hitting the US.
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Soviets use ICBM to launch the first satellite into space.
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A US spy 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 communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin.
