2. USA  Not willing to give up power gained during WWII  Believed that liberated countries of Eastern Europe should determine own government SOVIET UNION  Feared capitalist West  Refused to give up control of Eastern Europe after WWII  Feared freed Eastern European countries would not choose communism  Stayed in areas they conquered during WWII

3.  1947  “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”  Greece & Turkey

5.  1947  Gen. George Marshall believed communism was successful in countries with economic problems  Rebuild Europe  COMECON  Policy of Containment

6.  North Atlantic Treaty Organization  1949  Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, Canada, United States  Provide mutual help if anyone on them attacked

7. West Germany, Turkey, Greece, Join later

8.  1955  Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, & Soviet Union,

9.  Both sides believed large arsenals would prevent war