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The Cold War began between the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist Western world led by the United States after World War 2. Stalin wanted to dominate Europe while Truman wanted peace and prosperity. When Stalin refused to withdraw Soviet troops from Eastern Europe, establishing an Iron Curtain, Truman responded with the Truman Doctrine to aid nations threatened by communism and the policy of containment to stop the spread of communism. One result was the Berlin Blockade, where Stalin cut off access to West Berlin to try to force the Western powers out.
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- 3. How were Russia and America different by the end of world war two? • Truman wanted peace and prosperity. • Stalin wanted to dominate Europe. • Hitler commits suicide, as Russian troops approach Berlin.
- 4. How did President Truman respond to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe? • Stalin told Truman, when asked to withdraw from Eastern Europe, that Russian troops were staying as a buffer zone. • The Iron Curtain refers to physical and ideological boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from 1995 to 1997. • Truman’s Doctrine was the US support to aid nations that were being threatened by outside influence, and promised to help struggling nations against communism. • The Containment pact was that America shall not go to war with countries that were already communists, but to support those against communism.
- 5. Causes and results of Stalin’s blockade of Berlin. • The city of Berlin was located in East Germany. The US needed the USSR's permission to bring all supplies through East Berlin using roads and railroads. The USSR cut off US access to their controlled roads and railroads leading to West Berlin by making the Berlin Blockade.
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