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President Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Plan the postwar world.
Several agreements reached Yalta later on played an important role in causing the cold war. -
Allies Britain, France, China, the Soviet Union beat Germany and took control of Europe.
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It's goal was to aid those who worked to resist being controlled by others. In the long term the US fought to stop the spread of communism.
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European nations create a plan for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic assistance.
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Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin.
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the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
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NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
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The nations were given the power to vote on resolutions and to choose the non-permanent members of the Security Council
