increasing tensions between the two superpowers

usa was worried about the spread of communism:

as countries were going through economic crisis president truman thought this would make communism more appealing so he tried to stop communism by:

the truman doctrine:

-the support of any nation threatened by a communist takeover

-eg usa gave 400 million dollars to turkey and greece to stop communism spreading

the marshall plan:

-promise of 17 billion dollars to european countries to help rebuild their economies

-western parts of germany benefitted but stalin rejected it as he thought usa was trying to lure eastern europe away from ussr

1948 berlin disagreement:

-1947 usa britain and france decided…