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Superpower rivalry in Europe and Asia between 1943 - 1949 led to the…

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        1947
        
        1948
        
        Marshall Plan
        
        Berlin Blockade
        
        Salami tactics: Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia
        
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        Berlin Airlift
        
        1949
        
        USSR tests first nuke - beginning of arms race, demonstrated that USSR was economically capable.
        
        Communist Victory in China - communism spreads to China.
        
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        Truman Doctrine - hostile, anti-communist foreign policy
        
        Cominform and Comecon
        
        Long telegram
        
        Churchill's iron curtain speech
        
        First Indochina War
        
        Novikov telegram
      - Yalta Conference - Disagreement over Poland's borders
        
        Potsdam Conference - Disagreement over future of Germany. West wanted strong Germany to prevent communism from spreading, USSR wanted weak Germany.
        
        Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Done without informing Stalin = demonstrated brewing mistrust