Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and East Germany were Satellite Nations.

Stalin had promised ALL the Satellite Nations that he would free them at the Yalta Conference. He did not, he lied.

There was no physical barrier, just political.

It begun during 1945 but people saw the impact in 1946.

Greece and Turkey were desperate after the war and had bad economies so the Soviets tried to take advantage of that.

Truman asked congress for $400 million and military assistance in Greece and Turkey so they don't turn to communism.

It motivated USA to fight communism worldwide.

When Western Europe started recovering, Communism did not appeal to them as much because, they were no longer desperate for help.

New markets became open for trade.

This divided Berlin into Communist East Berlin and Democratic West Berlin.

The wall was built to keep the Communist side from seeing how free the non-Communist side was and access to West Berlin was closed for 11 months.

Truman sent Cargo planes to drop food, supplies, medicine, etc.

Stalin lifted the blockade in 1949 after realizing they were beaten.

It was created because Western Europe saw that the Soviet Union was becoming more aggressive.

The point of NATO was to help any of the members that were attacked.

It started off with 12 countries, now it has 26 countries.

The Warsaw Pact was and alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

It was created to make the Soviet Union look bigger and more put to together.

The government tried to deny responsibility for it.

The US had to take responsibility for it because the plane was still intact and the pilot was still alive.

USSR funded North Korea and encouraged them to take over South Korea.

The Soviet Union thought that the US would not help the South Koreans but they were wrong.

MacArthur suggests the US nukes the Chinese army but Truman rejected the idea.

MacArthur went to Congress to appeal but was later fired for insubordination.