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A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War ll.
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"The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character." - Marshall
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Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
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That Cold War was a state of diplomatic hostility that developed between the two superpowers.
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NATO is a nonaggression military commitment for the non-communist nations (U.S. and Canda with ten other Eurpoean nations). NATO meaning North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In 1955, West Germany joined NATO.
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As early as 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its own atomic weapon (U.S. already had atomic bombs.) The superpowers had both become nuclear powers.
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Truman was determined to develop a deadly weapon before the Soviet Union did so he came up with the H-bomb. November 1952 was the U.S.'s first successfully test of the bomb and in August, of the next year, the Soviets had exploded their own thermonuclear weapon.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed to stabilize that area after open military aggression occurred in Korea (and Indochina).
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The Soviet Union had a pact of their own for the containment policy which was also signed by Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.
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The Soviet Union broke up in 1991 and the cold war dictated not only U.S. and Soviet foreign policy it also influenced world alliances as well.
