cold war

By dwight127

  • yalta conference

    what: meeting between US and USSR about reorganizing germany
    where: Yalta
    what did it do for the cold war: started it
    what it do for freedom: germany had no choice

  • potsdam conference

    Potsdam Conference. Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.

  • truman doctrine

    Truman Doctrine was the policy of containment. Containment was the policy of restricting communist expansion by diplomatic, military and economic actions. The Truman Doctrine warned that it was the duty of the United States to quash the communist aggression in Turkey and Greece.

  • marshall plan

    was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

  • NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed. NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.