Start of the Cold War

Post WWII

• Soviet Russia occupied Eastern Europe
• sought after countries Germany had conquered

Iron Curtain

• East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria became Soviet satellite nations
• divided Europe into East and West blocs

Truman Doctrine

• the US agreed to protect democratic countries across the globe
• stated that the US would combat communism

Marshall Plan

• US financial plan for rebuilding West Europe, fighting communism
• was a huge success

NATO

• formed in 1949
• union against Soviet aggression

Warsaw Pact

• Russia's response to the NATO

Spread

• at this point, the Cold War spread to other nations
• it took off in Asia especially