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- Containment Policy
- Iron Curtain Speech
- Winston Churchill
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- Truman Doctrine
- The Containment Policy was a US military strategy to stop the expansion of Communism into other countries.
- Marshall Plan
- Winston Churchill stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain”
- Berlin Airlift
- The Truman Doctrine was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from an anti-fascist alliance to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion.
- Formation of NATO
- The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
- The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of BerlinThe crisis started on June 24, 1948, when
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries, 2 North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
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