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World War II devastated the Sovite Union. create a new industrial base, Stalin returned to the method that he had used in the 1930's.
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Once the Axis Powers were defeated, the differences between the united states and the soviet union became clear.
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Eastern Europe was the first area of disagreement. The united states and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of eastern europe should freely determine their own governments.
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President Harry S Truman o the united states, alarmed by the british withdrawak and the possibilities of soviet expansion into the eastern mediterranean, responded early in 1947 with the Truman Doctrine
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The Truman Doctrine was followed in june 1947 by the EUropean Recovery Program by General George C. Marshall, U.S. secretary of state, it is better know as the Marshall Plan
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The timeable of the Soviet Takeover varied from country to country.
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The fate of Germany also became a source of heated contention between the soviets and the west. At the end of the war, the allied powers had divided germany into four zones, each occupied by one of the allies-The United States, The SOviet Union, Great Britain, and France
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In 1949, Chinese Communist took control of the government in China,stregthening U.S fears about the spread of communism.
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The search for security during the cold war led to the formation of new military alliences. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949
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The Soviet Union had set off their bomb, in the early 1950's, theSoviet Union and The United States developed the even more deadly hydrogen bomb.
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Nikita Khurushchev, who emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955, tried to take advantage of the american concern over missles to solve the problem of West Berlin.
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During the Administration of John F Kennedy, the COld War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union reached frightening levels
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A group of leaders succeeded Stalin, but the new general secretary of the commnist Party, Nikita Krushchev, soon emerged as the chief of Soviet Policy maker
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By that time, the United States had been drawn into a new struggle that had an important impact on the Cold War-the Vietnam War
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At the end of World War II, Soviet military forces occupied all of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
