 Conflict between the communists and democratic nations  Communists were led by the Soviet Union  Democratic nations led by the United States Source:

 Signed March 17 th, 1948  Signed by Belgium, France, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom  Established the Western Union  Support in economic, social, and cultural matters Source: Signing of the Treaty of Brussels

 April 4, 1949  12 Nations joined  United States, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg  Members of the organization all agreed that Russian Communism would become a threat to the democratic world  Result: European countries came together under American control. Source: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 Ideological  United States- rights to form political parties, right of assembly, of speech, and of the press  Soviet Union- No right to form political parties, right of speech, assembly, and press  No compromise between them because the governments were different  Economical  United States- free trade worldwide  Soviet Union- no interaction with other countries in the trading industry  Russia was afraid that if they traded with the west, they would’ve became weaker as a country because of western ways of life Source: OF THE COLD WAR

 Power Opposition  Power was mostly shared between the U.S. and Soviet Union after WWII  Each country wanted to take over one another  This caused the two countries to battle  Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Source: OF THE COLD WAR

 Address presented by President Harry S. Truman  Asked for $400 million in military and economic support from Turkey and Greece  March 12, 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." - President Harry Truman President Harry S. Truman signing a document.

 Three months after the Truman Doctrine was signed  Also known as the European Recovery Program(ERP)  George C. Marshall came up with the idea of offering American financial aid for European economic recovery  President Truman signed the first bill for $5,300,000,000  On December 31 st of 1951, the European Recovery Program ended and had spent about $12,500,000,000

Conflicts Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War Vietnam War

 April 17, 1961  Led by and paid for by the United States for Cuban exiles  April 15 th, three U.S. planes flown by Cubans bombed Cuban air bases  Planned by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  Happened because Dwight D. Eisenhower broke ties with Cuba  Against a dictator named Fidel Castro in Cuba.  It was unsuccessful

 October 1962  The Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba  President John F. Kennedy sent a blockade to Cuba to prevent any Russian ship bring more missiles, weapons, etc.  Soviet Union wanted to feel more powerful than the United States  Finally after a month, Russian Premier Nikita S, Khrushchev agreed to withdraw all Soviet bombs and missiles

 1957  Vietnam is split into two sections, Communist and non-Communist  Ngo Dinh Diem  South Vietnam leader  Became a disgrace and was unpopular  Diem continues to recruit more and more troops as years went on  May 1963  Buddhist Population rebels against Diem because they thought he was getting in the way of their religious practices  United States joined S. Vietnam after an attack against the U.S. destroyers, Maddox and C. Turner Joy, off the coast of N. Vietnam  The war continued to grow until S. Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam in U.S. Destroyer Maddox U.S. Destroyer C. Turner Joy

 1945  The U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to split up Korea into two sections, North and South  1950  Tension began to build because of the efforts put into reuniting the country failed  June 25, North Koreans invaded South Korea, and South Korea(occupied by United States) responded within a few hours  1951  Peace talks began. On and off.