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Analyse the reasons for, and results of, the adoption and expansion of the…

- - - - Could back with Marshall Plan, the economic aid that would assist US with its doctrine of containment.
- - - - first sustained use of Truman Doctrine, massive spending, determination that the Allies would not be ejected from Berlin
    - - Stalin feels West Berlin being set up to face him, threatening --> tensions rise, creates Warsaw Pact in response to NATO, both bristling with weapons, H-bomb in the '50s
  - - - Containment almost spilled over into war with China and nuclear weapons with MacArthur
        
        Truman called him back, containment would remain the American ideology. --> Americans didn't intervene in Hungarian Revolution, would not be a confrontation with the Red Army.
      - Wanted roll-back in Korea and possibly even the Chinese Revolution, Chinese recently revolved, understandably edgy, felt US wanted to crush Communist revolution in China, danger was nuclear weapons were now available, MacArthur thought of using them but was at that point recalled by Truman and relieved of his position.
        
        Truman Doctrine restated, support for SK, 38th parallel to be the border, even though West alarmed by China becoming Communist, the growth and threat of it to the free world.
    - - Expansion into Asia, global Cold War
- - - - economic and political hardship, Hungarians wanted to leave Warsaw Pact (created in 1955). Hungary behind the Iron Curtain and asking for assistance from the West when the Soviet tanks were on the streets of Budapest, but were not assisted at all - was Truman Doctrine
      - buffer state, having heard K had denounced Stalin in his Secret Speech
  - - - Cuban Missile Crisis