CGS SS 202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nato, Truman Doctrine, X Article

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Containment: truman doctrine and marshall plan, european support and economic plans, one of the most successful programs, stopping the spread of communism in europe, more active involvement in the united states. Like the church, it is dealing in ideological concepts which are of long term . If the soviet union will do things that the church will: 3: what the us needs to do is to stop the soviet union from taking over the. Western world: containment: essence of truman policy stop it from going any further than it already has gone. Berlin airlift: berlin crisis of 1948, stalin and the us are against each other, stalin attempts to get the western presence out out of western germany, establishment of the germany blockade between the east and west. He wanted them to leave their post wwii jurisdiction in berlin but they didn"t. Therefore, he then began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west.