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Held in July 1945, American officials convinced Stalin to accept German reparations only from the Soviet zone or the far eastern part of Germany which paved the way for the separation of eastern and western Germany. This was beginning the separation or split of nations.

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an American diplomat who proposed the idea that the  Soviet Union was an Oriental despotism and he argued that the West’s only recourse was to meet the Soviets. He called for a long-term containment of Russia. He believed the Soviet Union was unstable and would eventually collapse. This fueled the U.S. to continue their conflict with the Soviets which led to many splits within European and Asian counties.

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Marshall proposed a massive infusion of American capital to rebuild the European economy. Marshall urged the nations of Europe to work out a comprehensive recovery program based on U.S. aid. In 1948 Congress approved this and over the next four years it contributed 13 billion to a recovery effort that helped Western Europe and the United States. However it ended up intensifying cold war tensions. Differing economies in Europe helped to contribute to the split in European nations.

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After the Soviet Union detonated a bomb, Truman turned to the NSC to give a report. The report’s authors described the Soviet Union not as a typical great power but as one with a “fanatic faith” that seeks to “impose its absolute authority.” NSC-68 cast Soviet ambitions as nothing short of “the domination of the Eurasian landmass. To prevent this the U.S. created a hydrogen bomb that would be 1000 times more destructive than a normal bomb, this increased the tensions and split between democratic and European nations as nuclear weapons were threatened.

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He went against Truman and congress's orders to bring North Korea back to the 38th parallel and continued pushing them back, he also threatened to use nuclear weapons which made China get involved

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Korea was destroyed from Japan due to World War 2 which caused the Soviet Union and the U.S. to rebuild Korea and divide it in to communist and democratic. The northern Koreas wanted to reunite with their families and cross the 38th parallel which the United States took as an attack to democracy and they brought in troops to help fight, ultimately China got involved leading the U.S. to stop the war with a treaty.

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The soviet union created a military alliance for Eastern Europe that included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union in 1955. This furthered the split within Europe

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After the Soviet union and the United States decided to split up Berlin, that was in Eastern Germany, the Soviet union told the U.S. they would shoot down any plane that flew over their country even if it was just the U.S. trying to get food and material to West Berlin, the U.S. made it successfully but it was the closest time there was a nuclear war after WWII.

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A peacetime military alliance entered into by the United States after the Berlin crisis where Stalin blocked all traffic into West Berlin, the U.S. flew over tons of food to Berlin Under the NATO pact.

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Truman proposed large-scale assistance for Greece and Turkey (then involved in a dispute with the Soviet Union over the Dardanelles, and Congress approved this quickly and allowed for the United States to give 300 million to help aid grease and 100 million to help aid Turkey. This was a way of the United States to continue to spread democracy while the Soviet Union also tried to spread democracy.

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Containment was a strategy developed by American officials to limit Stalin's influence in Eastern Europe and create democratic governments in Western Europe.

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After the end of WWII, Stalin was unwilling to accept self determination for Eastern European nations, which to Americans was a predisposition to the Cold War.

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

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