COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF 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: -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-3: -In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals of the Marshall Plan was to halt the spread of communism on the European continent.
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: -The “containment policy” was the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II. The idea was to make other countries prosperous enough to avoid the temptation of communism.