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Vocabulary
Iron curtain: barrier of secrcey and cenorship that keeps a country isolated form
Satellite: is a county ruled by another nation
Containment: policy of limiting the expansion or influence of a hostile power a Amercain method to limit soviet expansion during the could war
Airlift: emergency shipment of supplies sent by airplane
Veto: or reject
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman became President upon the death of franklin Roosevelt in 1945
Truman served as president until 1953 then remained active in politics
Americans became fearful in 1949
Russia had the knowledge to build their own atomic bomb in 1949.
Soon after China fell under the control of communist leader, Mao Zedong.
Soon after china had the knowledge to build their own atomic bomb.
The largest Nations, Soviet Union and China who had the most people and were both communist and had their own atomic bomb.
North Atlantic treaty
Nato April 1949 Formal military alliance to grad against a sovet attack
The sovet union the satellite nation of eastern Europe formed their own Alliance the Warsaw pact in 1955
Communist and non-CommunistCommunist was Russia non-communist France Great Britain United States of America