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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 by the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall. It created an economic miracle in Western Europe and economic boom in the United States.
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During the multinational occupation, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control but the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered vital supplies and relief to West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade was the one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States.
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The pact operated on the basis of collective security. The original NATO included Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. And the NATO is still active.
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason, especially when related to communism, without proper regard for evidence. It was characterized by heightened political repression and a campaign spreading fear of communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents.
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Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, and other American scientists developed the first hydrogen bomb. And a hydrogen bomb has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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The treaty provided for a unified military command and for the maintenance of Soviet military units on the territories of the other participating states. and It is a military treaty and association of E European countries, formed by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
