... to European countries struggling with the economic burden of reconstruction after the war. Marshall's plan directly liked U.S. aid to bolstering a certain "way of life- against the threat of communism. The plan provided 17 billion dollars in aid in a period of 4 years. In return for this the Europeans would increase production and reduce tariffs. The Plan was a big success as aid came in the form of goods, loans up to 1952 ... methods to Contain Soviet Influence' (Le Fever). When the Berlin Crisis erupted in 1948, America risked war to protect its ideology. Berlin was divided into four s...

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... into a symbol of the West's resolve to resist communist expansion."" Later that year, twelve nations, including three of the great powers, signed an agreement establishing NATO, stating that an attack against one member is an attack against all. After the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union created its own communist alliance in Eastern Europe in 1955 known as the Warsaw Pact. By now, the tension of the Cold War was in full effect and the threat of communist ... , in February of 1950, when in the midst of the speech he "lifted up a sheet of paper and claimed to hold in my hand' a list of ...

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... Zinoviev in control of the Party. Stalin used this alliance in order to get rid of his main opponent, Trotsky. After the threat of Trotsky was eliminated, he allied with Bucharin and Rykov against his former partners. At this period, Stalin proved his enormous political skills. He managed, by raising Lenin to be the symbol of the new Russia, to promote himself as the soviet hero and his uncontested successor. The climax came in his ... 50th anniversary, in ... ...

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