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Soviets and Americans meeting at the
River Elbe in Germany in 1945
WWII Alliance between
U.S. and USSR
-ideological differences suspicion
-Stalin wants buffer zone in Eastern
Europe
-US wants free elections in E.
Europe
Economic and Military
Alliances
-Marshall Plan - $$ to rebuild W. Europe after
WWII
-Molotov Plan - $$ to rebuild E. Europe after
WWII
-US puts troops in W. Europe, NATO is formed
-Soviets create alliance with E. Europe with the
Warsaw Pact
-Inspired the Truman Doctrine –said that the US
would stop the spread of communism around the
world – policy known as CONTAINMENT
-US gave $$ to Greece and Turkey
-competition
between US
and USSR
-attempt to
keep each
other “in
check”
-direct conflict
= total
destruction ->
COLD WAR
Development of Nuclear Weapons
-Soviets
blockade
roads, railroads
into Berlin
-Americans
airlift supplies
into Berlin
-Berlin wall is
built in 1961
Berlin Airlift
-Communist
N.
Korea invades S.
Korea in June
1950
--confirms
fear of
spread of
communism
-MacArthur
U.S. forces
-Cease
leads
fire
signed along 38th
parallel in 1953
The Korean War
increased
U.S.
suspicion
-
-brutal
suppression
of Hungarian
resistance
confirmed
fear of
communism
Soviet Invasion of Hungary