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Unit: The Cold War
Topic: Communism Spreads
1. Mutual
Distrust
A.The U.S.
feared the
spread of
Communism.
B. Stalin had forced
Communism upon
Poland and other
Eastern European
countries.
C. These countries
were called
satellites of the
Soviet Union.
D. The Soviet Union has no year-round warm-water
port; they must depend on the Bosporus Strait to
enter the Mediterranean Sea.
E. When Stalin began to eye Greece and Turkey to
control access to the Strait, the U.S. took action.
2. The U.S.
Gets Serious!
A. In March 1947, President Truman created the Truman
Doctrine to give military and economic aid to any country
threatened by Communism.
“Put that in your pipe and
smoke it!”
B. It stopped
Stalin’s
advances on
Greece and
Turkey for
control of the
Bosporus.
C. The Marshall Plan (1947) was a massive
economic aid package designed to strengthen
war-torn European countries and turn them away
from Communism.
D. Both policies
were based
on the theory
of
containment,
which
involved
limiting
Communism
to areas
already under
Soviet
control.
Classwork!
Truman Doctrine: military
and monetary aid
Marshall Plan: monetary aid
Containment: stop
Communism from
spreading