Truman doctrine

Truman Doctrine

By Keely

  • The Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan
    A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War ll.

  • Marshall Plan Speech

    Marshall Plan Speech
    "The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America - are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character." - Marshall

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.

  • The Beginning of Cold War

    The Beginning of Cold War
    That Cold War was a state of diplomatic hostility that developed between the two superpowers.
    In the beginning the superpowers used spying, propaganda, diplomacy, and secret operations in their dealing with each other.

  • NATO

    NATO
    NATO is a nonaggression military commitment for the non-communist nations (U.S. and Canda with ten other Eurpoean nations). NATO meaning North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In 1955, West Germany joined NATO.

  • Soviet Union first nuclear threat on U.S. (atomic bomb)

    Soviet Union first nuclear threat on U.S. (atomic bomb)
    As early as 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its own atomic weapon (U.S. already had atomic bombs.) The superpowers had both become nuclear powers.

  • U.S.'s first nuclear threat on Soviet Union (H-bomb)

    U.S.'s first nuclear threat on Soviet Union (H-bomb)
    Truman was determined to develop a deadly weapon before the Soviet Union did so he came up with the H-bomb. November 1952 was the U.S.'s first successfully test of the bomb and in August, of the next year, the Soviets had exploded their own thermonuclear weapon.

  • SEATO

    SEATO
    Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed to stabilize that area after open military aggression occurred in Korea (and Indochina).

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Soviet Union had a pact of their own for the containment policy which was also signed by Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

  • The end / Soviet Union broke up

    The end / Soviet Union broke up
    The Soviet Union broke up in 1991 and the cold war dictated not only U.S. and Soviet foreign policy it also influenced world alliances as well.