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yalta conference
church hill, president rossevelt and stalin at the end of World War II said that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to win World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) & the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe) that would be -
Marshall Plan
The united states funneled food and economic assistance to europe reccover rapidly -
Truman doctrine
The Truman doctrine established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.