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In early 1945, with World War II in Europe drawing to a close, Franklin Roosevelt (United States), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) agreed to meet to discuss war strategy and issues that would affect the postwar world
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Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of containment limitimg communism to the areas already under soviet control.The Truman Doctrine would guide the united states for decades.
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postwar hunger and poverty made western european lands fertlie ground for communist ideas.To strengthen democratic governments the united states offered a massive aid package.
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Stalin's resentment at western moves to rebuild germany triggered a crisis over berlin.
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tensions contined to grow. in 1949 the unuted states,canada,and ten other countries fromed a new military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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In 1955 the sovit union responded by forming its own military allilites in eastern europe.
