THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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taking over the governments of several Western European nations
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increasing opportunities for political refugees to settle in the United States
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holding a series of summit meetings with leaders of the Soviet Union
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establishing policies of economic and military aid for European nations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Collective security became a goal following WWII. Following the war, the United States and the nations of Western Europe formed the collective security arrangement NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) as a method of stopping the spread of communism.
Detailed explanation-4: -On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
Detailed explanation-5: -Indeed, Asia proved to be the site of the first major battle waged in the name of containment: the Korean War. The division of Korea into two halves had come at the end of World War II.