Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0130 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Containment, the Marshall Plan, Korea
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The idea
Fear of Soviet expansion produced containment: aid to governments threatened by Communist forces and billions to rebuild Europe under the Marshall Plan. The Berlin airlift succeeded; Korea did not stop Communist expansion.
In practice
The Iron Curtain, Churchill's phrase for the Soviet sphere.
Where people slip
Unit six carries the Cold War globally. Here it is the American policy and the domino theory behind it.
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