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Germany divided
Alliies split Germany into 4 zones ruled by the U.S. UK USSR and France. -
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cold war
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UN created
UN was started as an international orginization to prevent wars -
US begins nuclear age
The United States dropped two atom bombs on hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Cold War begins
Stalin declares the "imcompatability" of communism and capitolism -
Churchill Coins "Iron Curtain"
Churchill used the term to describe the boundary seperating communists and capitolists -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gives aid to free nations -
Marshall plan
US agrees to help Europe rebuid -
US has the moneez
The US aproves the 12.5 billion dollar plan after czecholslovakia -
New Currency
Western allies begin circulation of a new currency in Germany -
Berlin airlift
US brings food and supplies to sustain a starving berlin -
Spies
US and USSR used spies to try to outmanuver each other -
NATO formed
US forms a defensive alliance with 10 western countries and canada -
Blockade lifted
USSR admits defeat -
Russia's first big boom
USSR tests their first Atomic bomb -
first H bomb
US developes the first Hydrogen utilizing bomb -
USSR catches up
Russia develops their first H bomb -
West Germany in NATO
West Germany admited into NATO, Soviets Scared of a strong Germany -
Warsaw Pact
The USSR starts their own alliance -
ICBM
Russia develops the first missle capable of reaching the US -
Worlds first satallite
The Russians launch Sputnik. The worlds first satallite -
The next satallite
The US launches their first satallite, the first that lasted for more than a month -
US spy plane shot down
powers spy plane was shot down trying to collect information and was imprisoned for two years -
Berlin wall
Soviets built the Berlin Wall to seperate East Berlin an West berlin