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Truman Doctrine Speech
A speech about a Joint Session of Congress -
Hitlers death
Hitler comited suicide by shooting himself -
Partioning of Germany
WHen germany was first concered it was slit into 4 part -
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Post WW2
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Civil War in Greece
was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Creation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Soviets test an atomic bomb
they test an atomic bomb and it explodes -
marchall plan
finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. -
Korean War begins
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
KGB Established
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Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957
