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Cold War Origins

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The Situation in Europe:

 

“Iron Curtain”
Soviet Satellites”
Cooperation and Security
NATO
Warsaw Pact
United Nations

 

Containment
Truman Doctrine

"March 12, 1947,  Truman requested support for what came to be known as the Truman Doctrine. Specifically, he asked for $400 million to bolster Greece and Turkey, which Congress quickly granted. More generally, he declared that “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”—a sweeping and open-ended commitment of vast and worrisome proportions."

 

Marshall Plan

 

"In a commencement address at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall invited the Europeans to get together and work out a joint   plan for their economic recovery. If they did so, then the United States would provide substantial financial assistance. This forced cooperation constituted a powerful nudge on the road to the eventual creation of the European Community (EC)."


Berlin Airlift
 

 

 

"The Americans organized a gigantic airlift in the midst of hair-trigger tension. For nearly a year, flying some of the very aircraft that had recently dropped bombs on Berlin, American pilots ferried thousands of tons of supplies a day to the grateful Berliners, their former enemies."

 


The Situation in Asia
:
Communism in China; Division of Korea

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