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Meeting of Germany
In Febraury 1945, Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland -
The Potsdam Conference
Truman's first meeting with Stalin occured in July 1945 in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. At Potsdam, Truman got word that the atom bomb had been tested in New Mexico. At that point, Truman told Stalin the United States had a new weapon of extraodinary force. -
United Nations Formed
The United Nations was a new international peacekeeping organization. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill's speech was a powerful message to the Soviet Union. He condemned the division of Europe that Stalin had already accomplished. He also called upon the americans to help keep staline from enclosing the nations behind the Iron Curtain of Communist domination and oppression. -
Containment Policy
George Kennan analyzed soviet behavior and policy. He soon concluded that the Soviet Union "cannot be easily defeated or discouraged by a single victory on the part of its opponents...but only by intelligent policies." The American policy of Containment was created from Kennan's analysis. -
The Truman Doctorine
In 1947, in a speech before a joint session of Congress, Truman called on the United States to take a leadership role in the world. Truman established another major policy that would guide American actions in the Cold War -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan called for the nations of Europe to draw up a program for economic recovery from the war. -
The Berlin Airlift
Truman decided on an airlift, moving supplies into West Berlin by plane. During the next 15 months, British and American military aircraft made mroe than 200,000 flights to delivier food, fuel, and other supplies. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlntic Alliance, is the an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact included, Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgary. This treaty called the members to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshall Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union.
