1. The Cold War

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4. End of WWII Nuclear Age U.S. is a superpower Soviet Union became a superpower in 1949

5. Policy of Containment

6. President Harry S. Truman April 12, 1945

7. United Nations

8. Potsdam Conference July 1945 Final wartime conference Stalin would break his promise

9. 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”

10. Truman Doctrine 1947 $400 million Help aid Turkey and Greece Resist against “outside pressure”

11. 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.”

13. Struggle over Germany

14. Berlin Airlift One of the first major crises of the Cold War June 1948 – May 1949 US and British flew supplies into W. Berlin Lasted 327 days 277,000 flights 2.3 million tons of supplies

16. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Est. 1949