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House of Un-American Activities Comittee
It caused more tension with Russia concerning that we were looking for spies and people who support Communism in America. -
GI Bill
This helped Veterans of post WW2, This didn't affect relations with Russia. -
Truman Doctrine
This increased tensions with Russia, we were financially supporting Democratic countries to stay Democratic and Russia was wanting those countries to turn communist. -
Brinkmanship
This greatly increased tensions, this is the method of pushing a country to the brink in order to get what you want. This could've and would've caused war if it didn't work. -
Berlin Airlift
This increased tensions, Russia tried cutting off travel to US's portion of Berlin in which we just started flying too. -
Marshall Plan
Provided Billions in economic aid to Europe after WW2, this didn't affect relations with Russia. -
NATO
This decreased tensions because it put the two in a group where they could discuss and vote on things with other countries in their presence. -
Korean War
This increased tensions, it was a fight of Democratic South Korea against Communist North Korea. We supported the South because they were Democratic and this angered Russia. -
Warsaw Pact
It increased tensions, they had set up basically teams and sides if a war was to take place. -
Interstate Highway System
This increased tensions because this project was done because of slow transportation across the country in case of a emergency. -
U-2 Incident
It increased tensions greatly, showed that we were spying on them and were on their land. We traded a spy to get back our pilot. -
Bay of Pigs
It Greatly increased tensions, we had trained and armed exiled Cubans and sent them back to Cuba to overthrow the government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This greatly increased tensions, Russia moved missiles into Cuba which were in distance of the US. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This eased relations with Russia. The US, Great Britain, and Russia signed an agreement saying that we wouldn't test our nuclear weapons above ground or underwater. -
Berlin Wall
This greatly increased tensions, this wall separated Berlin and Germany and prevented citizens from escaping Communist zones.
