THE EARLY COLD WAR YEARS

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TRUMAN DOCTRINE

• President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would
• provide political, military and economic assistance to all
• democratic nations under threat from external or internal
• Authoritarian forces

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

• The Truman doctrine was created to provide support to turkey and
• Greece during the cold war
• $400,000,000 was sent over to turkey and Greece to help fight
• Off the spread of communism

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CONTAINMENT

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• United States policy to prevent the spread of communism
• Communism was starting to grow in Europe
• lots of countries were beginning to turn to communism
• from the influence of Russia

CONTAINMENT

• It represented a middle-ground
• Position between appeasement and rollback

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THE BERLIN AIRLIFT

• https://docs.google.com/a/g.coppellisd.com/document/d/1BijtkRWCrFQxtuRYpiGX...

SOURCES

• http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-airlift
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366654/Marshall-Plan
• http://www.conservapedia.com/Marshall_Plan
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/62154/Berlin-blockade-and-airlift
• http://www.stlouisartistsguild.org/new/taxonomy/term/171

SOURCES

• http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/airlift.html
• http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine
• http://histoforum.net/containment/