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hitler is killed
Killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 -
Civil War in Greece
The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States -
Truman Doctrine Speech
President Harry Truman urges a joint session of Congress to support his doctrine, which calls for U.S. financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey in an effort to protect the countries from Soviet domination. -
Marshall Plan is announced
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. -
KGB Established
KGB, Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, English Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany -
Soviet atomic bomb project
Soviet atomic bomb project
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top secret research and development program begun during World War II -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War -
Sputnik
Sputnik is an international multimedia service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government -
Partioning of Germany
As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Germany was split between the two global blocs in the East and Wes -
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 NATO
The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom, is considered the precursor to the NATO
