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The Allies split Germany into 4 zones ruled by US, UK, USSR, and France.
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Uninted Nations was started as an international organization to prevent wars.
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Stalin declared incompatability of comunism and capitalism, triggering the cold war.
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Churchhill used the term "Iron Curtian" to describe the boundry of eastern and western Europe
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The Truman Doctrine was a US policy giving economic and military aid to free counties threatened by opponents.
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THe Marshall Plan was announced June 1947 by Secretary of State George Marshall.
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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 ones of Germany.
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The Western Allies began 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 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive military alliance.
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USSR tested its first Atomic Bomb
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US tested its first Hydrogen Bomb.
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USSR tested its first Hydrogen Bomb.