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- The "containment policy" was the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II. The idea was to make other countries prosperous enough to avoid the temptation of communism.
- Containment Policy
- The Iron Curtain speech, was speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which hestressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism.
- Iron Curtain Speech
- Communism is bad
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- Communism is good
- Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
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- The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was a four year plan.
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- The crisis started on June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States, and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
- Berlin Airlift
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.to provide collective security against the Soviet Union
- Formation of Nato
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