| By 1948 the Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the coutries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. The threat of Soviet-influenced communist parties coming to power in the democracies of Western Europe. |
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 | We have to maintain control of Eastern Europe in order to safeguard against any possible renewed threat from Germany. | |
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| Us the Americans and the British fear the permanent Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. | |
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| By 1947-1948 the Cold War solidified and the U.S. aid provided under the Marshall Plan to Western Europe had brought those coutires under American influence. |
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| We installed openly communist regimes in Eastern Europe | |
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| In 1948-53 the Soviets unsucessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin. The unified miltary command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe in 1949. |
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| We exploded our first atomic bomb... | |
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| We the US and our European allies formed the North Atlanic Treaty Organization (NATO). | |
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