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Cold War Begins (After WWI the Allies split up Germany and forced Germany…

- - - - An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
    - - This split Europe even further into East and West Europe
        
        East= Communist
        
        West= Capitalist
      - Russia then tried to hold West Berlin Hostage
        
        As a result the US asked for help from other countries and offered Aid
        
        Truman Doctrine: Announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. Policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external components.
        
        Marshall Plan: A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWI
        
        The U.S. also adopted the containment policy to stop communist ideas from spreading.
        
        Containment: A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940's, in which the United States tried to stop the spread fo communism by creating alliances helping the weak countries to resist Soviet advances.
        
        Due to fear of Russia, countries started to join the US and Canada to for a defensive alliance.
        
        NATO: The Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization- a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States and Canada.
        
        As a result Russia then made their own alliances.
        
        Warsaw Pact: A military alliance formed in 1955 by the soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
        
        The US and Russia both started to race for the best Nuclear Weapons
        
        Brinkmanship: a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.
      - Iron Curtain: During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe