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Cold war
After the war ended ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials bellicose rhetoric arms buildup and interventionist approach to international relations. In such a hostile atmosphere no single party was entirely to blame for the Cold War; in fact, some historians believe it was inevitable. -
Truman Doctrine
the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in faraway conflicts. Gave 400 million in economic and military aid to greece and turkey. -
Marshall plan (ERP)
European recovery plan, 16 countries received aid. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO
North Atlantic treaty organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Stalin
After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Once in power, he collectivized farming and had potential enemies executed or sent to forced labor camps. Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II (1939-1945) but afterward engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War (1946-1991). In 1953 Stalin dies -
Harry Truman
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
SEATO
n September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. It was to prevent the domino theory -
WarSaw pact
In 1955 S.U. creates WarSaw pact to offset Nato. The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union -
Eisenhower doctrine
It like the Truman doctrine but for the middle east. Offered economic and military support if communism threaten the middle east. -
Berlin Airlift
In 1961 S.U. began to constructing the Berlin wall.The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. In 1989 the Berlin Wall falls. In 1948 stalin cuts off all supply route to W. Berlin and the U.S. airlifted supplies for 11 months.
