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In response to the Marshall Plan, the Soviet Union created the Molotov Plan, providing economic aid to the communist nations of Europe. This was developed in 1947.

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After WW2, the French controlled colony of Vietnam was involved in a civil war. The North Vietnamese, the communists, were supported by many of the local Vietnamese and the corrupt French government. The US became involved to keep democracy, and the US became involved in another war to contain communism, further raising tensions.

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The US feared that the spread of communism to an area would result in the fall of the entire region's democratic governments. The fall of China to communism worried the US about nearby Asian countries, including Southeast Asia and South Korea.

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From 1927 to 1949, Communist forces fought against Nationalist Chinese forces. Mao Zedong, the communist leader, ended up victorious, and the former US ally in WW2 became communist, threatening to spread to other nearby countries.

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In 1947, Truman made a speech in which he delivered the Truman Doctrine. Basically, in essence, it said that the US will intervene anywhere in the world to stop threats to democracy.

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Containment was the policy of the US during the Cold War. Seeing that they could not completely eradicate communism without a nuclear war, they accepted its existence and worked to prevent communism from spreading. To do so, they intervened in countries' politics, sometimes going to war.

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This was a US National Security Council report that claimed that the Soviet Union and other communist countries had a much larger military than previously expected, calling for a massive defense buildup for democratic nations. It even called for a hydrogen bomb. It was written in 1950 and served to create fear, and led to the containment policy

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In 1955, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact with other communist nations of Europe. In essence, it was the same thing as NATO, just for the Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union. It deepened the divided between democratic/capitalist nations and communist nations in Europe.

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In 1949, the US, Canada, and many democratic European nations joined NATO, a peacetime military alliance, against the possible threat of communism. As a result, Europe became even more divided, and the Soviet Union came up with the Warsaw Pact as a response. Europe became divided between democracy/capitalism and communism

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In 1945, the big three met in Potsdam. A new, inexperienced President Truman, demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe, but he had to give in to Stalin because of the Soviet Union's military occupation of Eastern Europe. In addition Churchill accused Stalin of raising an Iron Curtain, not helping the relations between the UK/US and Soviet Union

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In Europe, countries were economically shattered from WW2. Seeing the poor economic situations and fearing a spread of Communism, the US sent a $15 billion aid package to the nations of Europe, even offering to help Communist countries. However, this was only meant to make communism seem bad by requiring terms that the Soviet Union would not accept. This was enacted in 1948.

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After WW2, Russia and the US agreed to split Korea, a former Japanese colony, along the 38th parallel. Both sides dreamed of reuniting Korea under their respective government, and border disputes led to relatively constant fighting. The fall of China made South Korea even more vulnerable, and the fighting between the two sides broke out in 1950, creating tension in the region. Both powers, the US and Russia supported the respective sides.

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