Most students are able to understand the key features of the US response to the development of a Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1949, but only the most able can place this in the context of US foreign policy over the whole of the twentieth century.
The USA’s response to the Soviet seizure of control of independent states in Eastern Europe was in complete contrast to the isolationism it had pursued between the two world wars. The Truman Doctrine and the development of the Marshall Plan formed part of a coherent response which was the basis of US foreign policy towards the USSR until the collapse of communism.
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