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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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This was an agreement between twelve nations including the U.S. in which they agreed that an attack on one or more nations was an attack on all of them. Essentially, the U.S. was preparing to fight the Soviets and they were being extremely defensive.

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After WWII, the Soviet Union and the U.S. decided to divide Korea into two sections- South Korea was democratic (American) and North Korea was communist (Soviets). This dynamic proved to be non-beneficial because there were multiple invasions from both sides. China also got involved and pushed Americans back to the 38th parallel. After three years of rising tensions and fighting, Eisenhower had enough so he signed a treaty which ended the Korean War.

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This permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for “subversive” activities. The program was designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government.

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The U.S. contributed nearly 13 billion dollars to a recovery effort that benefited Western Europe. In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals of the plan was to halt the spread of communism on the European continent.

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As a result of the communist victory in Greece, the Doctrine said that American citizens should resist communism. It established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces... aka communism.

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-Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid 1920's until his death in 1953. He was the ultimate leader and advocate of Communism that American officials had a difficult time negotiating with.

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In February 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Yalta and Roosevelt was focused on maintaining Allied Unity and Stalin insisted that Russian national security required pro soviet governments in eastern Europe. This was significant because two world powers were disagreeing on how to manage the aftermath of the war.

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In the late 1940’s American officials developed a clear strategy toward the Soviet union to contain Communism. Ultimately, this was America's way of declaring that they refused to let communism take over the world.

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Germany was divided into two areas, in which one side was communist and one was democratic. However, the capital was in the Soviet Union's territory so America insisted that they receive half of the territory in the capital. The Soviet's threatened to shoot down any American plane that flew in their side of the country; however, America still flew their plane with supplies to and from the capital of Berlin. Although nobody got hurt, this was the first instance of an almost nuclear war.

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After WWII, Germany was split up into four districts; however there were two distinct sides. One side being democratic (American) and the other was communist (Soviet Union). Essentially the Soviet Union built a wall along this divide to ensure that people from their side were not escaping. The wall was highly militarized so it caused tensions for the people living on either side of the wall.

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He was the senator of Wisconsin that amplified the Red Scare by saying that he had a list of 205 names that were communists working in the State Department. McCarthy didn’t have proof but he still received a lot of attention and ultimately increased American fear of Communism.

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Harry Truman replaced the deceased Theodore Roosevelt and his instinct was to stand up to Stalin. He was in no position to because he was inexperienced and thrown into huge complicated negotiations. Truman's primary involvement with the Soviet Union definitely contributed to the rising tensions between the two nations.

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Describe the context of the split in Europe and Asia after WWII and the start of the Cold War