the policy of containment

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  • Created on: 08-03-18 19:08

What was the policy of containment?

  • policing measure
  • cold war policy
  • truman doctrine- containment- if you want help, we will help you
  • geo-political strategy
  • the 'iron-curtain' marked the border of communism
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What did this mean in reality for Europe?

  • two-sided war
  • division between the capitalist west and the communist east
  • the West of Germany was like a US base in the West
  • Truman feared the spread of communism into Greece and Turkey
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What was the USA's first European test?

  • Berlin airlift supported 2 million West Berliners
  • Marshall aid- USSR turned the money down
  • USSR felt threatened by the joining of West Germany-GB, US, FR
  • division of Berlin within a divided Germany
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How did the USSR and USA's relations deteriorate f

  • the creation of NATO-13 European states and USA, Canada and Iceland-Russia was left out
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What was the USA's first test outside of Europe?

  • the US refused to recognise the new communist government in China
  • prospect of South Korea falling to the communists in 1950
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