Cold war

• guerilla tactics - head to head tactics - involves ambushes
• League of Nations weakness

  • The United States was not a member / It had no army to enforce its decisions /
  • Germany was not allowed to join it until 1926 / The Soviet Union did not
  • become a member until 1934 / The more powerful countries ignored it
  • whenever it suited them to do so, etc.
• The Truman Doctrine was announced on March 12, 1947, as part of President Harry S. Truman's foreign policy strategy. It stated that the U.S. would provide economic and military assistance to any country threatened by communism.
• 1. The Iron Curtain

  • Stalin created a "buffer zone" by imposing communist governments on East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. This division became known as the Iron Curtain, feared by Western Allies as a potential expansion of Soviet influence.
• • The Marshall Plan provided funds to help Europe rebuild, aiming to prevent the spread of communism by fostering economic prosperity. Stalin refused Marshall Plan aid for Eastern Bloc countries.
• • Capitalism: The US had a capitalist economy where individuals could acquire wealth, own private property, and profit from business with minimal government interference. The US was also a democracy with multiple political parties, free elections, free press, and free speech.