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Promises to carry out free elections in Poland were not conducted and its new border with the USSR remained
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US and USSR could not agree on the issue of handling post war Germany, with disagreements over a wide range of isues, including who should send over reparations first.
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USSR request for a $6 billion loan was met with US demands for opening of Eastern Europe markets to US manufactured products. Further requests for a billion dollar loand was 'lost' by the US state department. All negotiations over loans ended by June 1946
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The Long Telegramme changed Truman's policy towards USSR to one of firmness, the ICS hardened the attitude of the Americans towards the USSR, and the Clifford Elsey Report acted as a justification for the US perspective towards the Soviets.
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A speech that pledged US economic and miltary aid
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Increased the feeling of military insecurity in the region and came close to the first armed clash. Ultimately lefd to the formation of NATO in 1949
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Cemented the economic schism between the two superpowers, with Russia coutnering the MP with its own version, the Molotov Plan
