USA Not willing to give up power gained during WWII Believed that liberated countries of Eastern Europe should determine own government SOVIET UNION Feared capitalist West Refused to give up control of Eastern Europe after WWII Feared freed Eastern European countries would not choose communism Stayed in areas they conquered during WWII
1947 “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” Greece & Turkey
1947 Gen. George Marshall believed communism was successful in countries with economic problems Rebuild Europe COMECON Policy of Containment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization 1949 Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, Canada, United States Provide mutual help if anyone on them attacked
West Germany, Turkey, Greece, Join later
1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, & Soviet Union,
Both sides believed large arsenals would prevent war