The+Cold+War+Begins

= The Cold war Begins =

How did the U.S. leaders respond to the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe?
The cold war began after WWII ended,the U.S leaders believed that the Soviet Union was planning to take over the world; and they didnt want to have to go through another World war. So to solve the situation before it became a problem The U.S.and our allies met up in Petsdam for the Yalta Conference,there the allies had choose to began a war the they would call the cold war. A **cold war** is intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict. The cold war would last for 46 years long.

With the Cold war starting and **iron curtain** came across Europe, which is a metaphor for how Europe is split into two. One side of Europe was fighting against communism and the other side was falling in to it. In some countriesthe iron curtain was just knowing where you can and cant go maybe has some guards. But there is some places that has actual fences with gardes all around it and if you were american you had no way of gettting past them.

To solve this Truman went to congress with the Truman doctrine. The **Truman doctrine** was made to help aid Turkey and Greece to hep fight communism from spreading. Truman went to congress asking for 400,000 dollers to help these countries too.Congress did apove the doctrine and it set a new course for American foreign Policy.

Another way American leaders respond to the threat of soviet expansion is they created another american policy called containment.Containment was introduced to the United States by George F. Kennan. **Containment** is we would use our poswer to help other nations fight communision. containment was made to achieve three goals: the restoration of the balance of power in Europe, the curtailment of Soviet power projection, and the modification of the Soviet conception of international relations.



Another desion to help stop the soviet expansion was we had mad the Mrshall plan. The **Marshall plan** gave 13 billion dollers in grants and loans to Western European nations starting in 1948. the Marshall plan was named after Secertary of State George C. Marshall. The Marshall Plan was set up because the economic infrastructure of Europe had been destroyed by the Second World War and because this and because europe was having the coldest winter on record. The plan reduced the people of Europe to starvation.

When The soviet union started stop the delivery of food to berlin in hopes to make berlin fall to then. the Allies Didnt want to stand for that so they created the Berlin airlift. The **Berlin Alirlift** was a way for the allies to deliver food and supplies to Berlin. In a 10 month period we flew over 2.3 million tons of supplies into the city.



In May 1955, representatives of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,Hungary, Poland, and Romania met in Warsaw, Poland. They met there to sign the multilateral Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, otherwise known as the **Warsaw Pact**.This pact was an allience between the soviet union and many other countries that they wouldnt fight eachother. The Unted states version of the Warsaw Pact was the NATO. The NATO was an alience between Europe and the United States in the Cold war. NATO stands for and was created in April of 1949. The countries in this allience was the United States, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. They all met up in Washington DC were the 12 countries signed the treaty.The partners of the Treaty believed that Russian Communism had posed a new threat to the democratic world. In fear of russia attacking either on of them they stated that "an armed attack against one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all." As a result of this Treaty, the nations in western Europe were drawn together under American leadership.

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