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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 UNITED NATIONS (UN) X11 THE IRON CURTAIN BETWEEN EASTAND WEST EUROPE THE COLD WAR TRUMAN DOCTRINETruman supported countries that rejected Communism. He practiced the idea of containment, which blocked the Soviet threat in Eastern Europe which involved forming alliances and helping weak countries. An example of this was funding Turkey and Greece. Marshall Plan: US Secretary of State devised a plan to aid needy Europeancountries. They would provide food, machinery, and other materials. IN RESPONSE The Berlin AirliftThe Allies withdrew from Germany but the Soviet Union refused. They held their part of Berlin hostage. As a result, America and Britain aided West Berlin by flying food and supplies in. A struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war. US, Canada, and European Nations- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization): An attack on one would mean an attack on allSoviet Union, East Germany, West Germany and Others- Warsaw Pact Yalta Conference: The Allied leaders (Roosevelt of the US, Stalin of the Soviet Union, and Churchill of Great Britain, met and agreed to split Germany into zones of occupation. Germany would have to pay Soviet Union to compensate for life of loss and property. Stalin promised free elections Security Council- Real power to investigate andsettle disputes and each could veto any Security Council action. i.e. : Britain, China, France, the US, and the Soviet Union. General Assembly- could vote on large range of issues The United States, the Soviet Union, and 48 other countries formed the UN to protect the members against aggression. Stalin installed Communist governments to build a border around the Soviet Union. East Germany- German Democratic Republic West Germany- Federal Republic of Germany (1949) "Communism and capitalism can not exist in the same world." tap and hold to change this header text! NUCLEAR WAR?Truman authorized work in a thermonuclear weapon and created the H-bomb, much more powerful than the A-bomb. The Soviets soon caught up. Under Dwight D Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, threatened the SU, stating that the U.S. would go to the brink of war, or brinkmanship. After the Soviet's ICBM released Sputnik, the first satellite, America poured money into science and technology. The CIA was caught spying when the Soviet's shot down a U-2 plane.
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