COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The Soviet Union set up a satellite state in Poland.
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The Allies divided Germany into four zones.
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The United States helped Greece prevent a communist revolution.
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North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the Cold War, for example, the United States could use economic containment in the form of embargoes on the Soviet bloc and China to prevent its rivals from acquiring machinery and equipment that would strengthen their military power.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Greek Civil War: The US was worried that Greece and Turkey would fall to communism and that communism would ultimately engulf the whole region. The Korean War: The US got involved in North Korea and prevented the communist North from taking over South Korea in 1953.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The United States developed its policy of containment to prevent communism from spreading further into Europe and the rest of the world. The concept was first outlined in George Kennan’s “Long Telegram, ” which he sent from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.