In response, the Soviet Union created the Molotov Plan, later expanded into the COMECON, a system of bilateral trade agreements and an economic alliance between socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization

On 14 May 1955, the USSR and other seven European countries “reaffirming their desire for the establishment of a system of European collective security based on the participation of all European states irrespective of their social and political systems” established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the …

The United States feared the spread of an economic system that would undermine its way of life and systematically destroy free enterprise all over the world, while the Soviet Union feared that the United States would control other nations and squelch communist revolutions in other countries. You just studied 43 terms!

American aid would end poverty and halt its spread. In Asia, containment policy followed similar lines to those adopted in Europe. Poor countries devastated by warfare and Japanese domination were given economic aid and a US military presence to help them stem the spread of Soviet-inspired communism.

The U.S. established the policy of containment in order to stop the spread of communism without provoking a third world war. The Marshall Plan helped to rebuild the economies of Western Europe in order to discourage the spread of communism.

How did fear of domestic communism affect American society during the cold war? As cold war tensions mounted, the US became gripped by a Red Scare. Many feared that communists were infiltrating the country, attempting to destroy the American way of life.

Western powers wanted access to the natural resources and the cheap labor of developing nations. There was an inverse relationship between the size of the communist bloc and global market share of Western nations.

Q. How did Britain, The United States, and France respond to the June 27th action? They decided to support them by flying and dropping supplies for the million people for nearly a year.

The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.