POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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the USSR claimed Eastern Europe
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The USA detonated the Hydrogen Bomb
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The USSR created their own atomic bomb
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Truman won re-election
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War: The Atomic Age In particular, American officials encouraged the development of atomic weapons like the ones that had ended World War II. Thus began a deadly “arms race.” In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own.
Detailed explanation-2: -4th April 1949: The NATO Treaty is Signed in Washington A system of collective defense, each members agreed to mutually defend another member in response to an attack from an external party. NATO set the stage for mass containment of the Soviet Union and their expansion of communism across Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sputnik and the Soviet Space Program On October 4, 1957, the USSR publicly launched Sputnik 1-the first-ever artificial satellite-into low Earth orbit. The success of Sputnik made Americans fear that the U.S. was falling behind its Cold War rival in technology.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Hiroshima Bombing Didn’t Just End WWII-It Kick-Started the Cold War. The colossal power of the atomic bomb drove the world’s two leading superpowers into a new confrontation. Soon after arriving at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, U.S. President Harry S.