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Truman/Eisenhower Administration Quiz

Major alliances post World War II

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Major alliances post World War II

NATO and Warsaw Pact

US strategy to help rebuild Europe by sending money/aid to 17 European countries

Theory that states if one country calls to Communism the neighboring countries will also become Communist

Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.
This was in response to the NATO

Truman Doctrine

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

A metaphorical barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Warsaw Pact was made up of...

Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland