cold war

By OKMEDLOWE 1

  • 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.

  • Marshall Plan

    was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.

  • Berlin Blockade

    -Stalin closed all roads, railways, and river routes leading into West Berlin (June 1948) hoping the West would give up West Berlin to East Germany

  • War in Korea

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    spy planes take pictures of nuclear missiles in Cuba