THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The United States established a blockade of East Berlin.
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The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.
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The United States withdrew from its European alliances
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The United States declared war on the Soviet Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The “iron curtain” is the US worked to stop the spread of communism. As the US would assist countries fighting communism to prevent it from spreading.
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: -The United States offered economic aid so western European countries could become strong enough to oppose Soviet aggression.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of 1946–1947, Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control. George Kennan, the American statesman who first proposed this approach, believed that communism would eventually destroy itself.