After World War II

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After World War II

• The Cold War begins

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Formation of the UN
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• Creation Of Israel and Palestine by the UN

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Nuremburg Trials
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The Big Three at Yalta
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At Yalta

• The USSR pledged to declare war on Japan by
  August 8, 1945.
• The Big Three agreed to let Poland be an
  independent country.
• They agreed to a post-war shared trusteeship of
  Korea.

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Potsdam Conference
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• Division of Germany and its capital, Berlin, into
  Occupied Zones

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A Rivalry Starts between the two strongest
nations The United States of America (USA) And
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
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Capitalism versus Communism
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Satellite Nations
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The Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Warsaw Pact Air bases
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Key Moments in the tension (or Cold War)
between the USA and the USSR
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Unification of western sectors of Germany and
Berlin
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Berlin Airliftthe first real confrontation
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China goes Communist
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Suez Crisis
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Sputnik
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U-2 affair
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August 1961
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The Wall Surrounded the western Part of the City
The Wall was torn down in 1989
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Cuban Revolution
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Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Since 1945 there have been over 2000 Nuclear Bomb
tests
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Space Race
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Alan Shepard 1961 sub-orbital flight
Yuri Gagarin April 1961, first man into space
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