Berlin Blockade
Fought between the Soviets and the Allied forces.
We were afraid that the Soviets would use nuclear forces.
Germany was set up into 4 zones.
They blocked the supply lines to Berlin.
Stalin and the Red Army set up in East Germany.
People didn't have much food during the winter.
The US put B-29 bombers on bases in Great Britain.
The nuclear arms race
The first project for the nuclear bombs was the Manhattan Project.
The US wanted to keep the bomb a secret.
The first nuclear bombs were drooped on Japan in 1945.
Both the United States and the Soviet Union both had nuclear weapons.
They both had a race to get more efficient and better nuclear weapons.
If one country bombed the other, then the other country would counter-attack.
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