The Cold War
Jan 02, 2016
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Cold War Timeline
Mounting Tensions
Satellite Nations: Communist governments put in place and dominated
by the Soviet Union“Iron curtain” speech:
By Winston Churchill Division of Europe Stalin called it a “call to war”
Truman Doctrine
• 1947
• $400 million
• Help aid Turkey and Greece
• Resist against “outside pressure”
Marshall Plan
• Sec of State George Marshall
• June 1947
• Provide aid to all European nations in need
• “Not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
Berlin Airlift
One of the first major crises of the Cold WarJune 1948 – May 1949US and British flew supplies into W. BerlinLasted 327 days277,000 flights2.3 million tons of supplies