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UN was created
UN started US International Organization to prevent wars -
Germany was divided
Allies with Germany into 4 zones. US, Britain, France, USSR -
US dropped bombs
US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, beginning Nuclear Age -
Stalin opened
Declared the incompatibility of communism and capitalism triggering the cold war -
The term "Iron Curtain"
Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" to boundary seperating communist Eastern Europe from capitalist Western Europe. -
Trueman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was a US Policy of giving an economic an military aid to free nations -
George Marshal
Announced by Secretary of state. Designed to feed starving Europeans and help them rebuild -
Congress approoved
They approoved of the 12.5 billion plan only after communists took over Czechoslovakia -
The Western Allies
Planned to begin circlation of a new currancy in the zones of Germany. -
Begin Berlin Airlift
Western Allies begin the Berlin Airlift, massive operation flying food and supplies. -
US joined with 10 Western European Nations
Canada forms (NATO), a defensive military alliance -
USSR begin using spies
Spies propanganda diplomacy, secret operations -
USSR admitted defeat
By lifting the blockade. The Cold War expanded and dictated all aspects of US and Soviet foreign policy -
US developed H-Bomb
US developed H-Bomb -
USSR debeloped H-Bomb
USSR developed H-Bomb -
West Germany was admitted to NATO
Ressurecting Soviet Fears of Strong Germany -
USSR formed own alliance
Formed own alliance. It was called Warsaw Pact -
Soviets developed an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
(ICBM) Which was capable of hitting the US. (ICBM) means (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) -
Soviets used ICBM to launch the first satellite
They launched the first satellite into space. The first satellite was called SPUTNIC -
US launched it's first satellite
Us launched it's first satellite -
US spy plane
US spy plane (CIA U-2 Plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers) was shot down over USSR, Powers spent 2 years in Soviet Prison for Espionage -
Soviets erected the Berlin Wall
They erected the Berlin Wall to seperate communist East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin. Soviets closed the border between the 2 Germans to prevent " Brain Drain"
