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Potsdam Conference
A conference held in Potsdam (summer of 1945) where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
The Cold War
The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology -
The Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) -
Berlin Airlift
Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April (1949)