Title: What happened during the cold war
Headings: What happened during the cold war
Back in the days
What happened during the cold war
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Why is it called the cold war?
Cold war in numbers
What happened during the cold war?
The Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Germany and Europe

Content: Communism could stay where it was, but it would not be allowed to spread. And ultimately this is why we fought very real wars in both Korea and Vietnam. As a government report from 1950 put it the goals of containment were: 1. Block further expansion of Soviet power
2. Expose the falsities of soviet pretensions
3. Induce a retraction of the Kremlin’s control and influence. 4. In general, foster the seeds of destruction within the Soviet system. The Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Harry Truman, who as you’ll recall, became President in 1945 after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, was a big fan of containment, and the first real test of it came in Greece and Turkey in 1947.