ist of their own accord. Indeed, Stalin had promised to leave Greece alone, and he did so - it was America who intervened militarily in Greece. And Russia saw the Fulton speech as a declaration of war, and Marshall Aid as an act of war. All Russia did during this time was to set up Comintern (1947), a meeting of Communist eastern European states.1948, the USA and the USSR were involved in the Cold War . Doctrine and Marshall PlanBerlin Blockadethe opening conflicts in the Cold War were about eastern Europe, the first direct confrontation of the Cold War arose out the other source of disagreement between the allies - the treatment of Germany . During 1945-1948, Britain and the USA were trying to restore Germany. In January 1947, they joined their two zones together (called Bi-zonia: two zones ). On 1 June 1948, they announced that they wanted to create the new country of West Germany. And on 23 June 1948 they introduced a new currency into Bizonia and west Berlin.contrast, during 1945-1948 Russia had been stripping the factories of east Germany of machinery to take as reparations. Western efforts to restore Germany were seen by Stalin as a direct attack. Berlin (like Germany) was divided into four sectors, but it was deep in the Russian sector of eastern Germany. On 24 June the Russians stopped all road and rail traffic into Berlin. Stalin said he was defending the east German economy against the new currency, which was ruining it. The western powers said he was trying to starve west Berlin into surrender.ignored General Clay, who wanted to invade east Germany (Truman did not want a hot war ). Instead, for 318 days, the Americans supplied West Berlin by air. More than a quarter of million flights carried 1.5 million tons of supplies. Stalin could have shot down the American planes, but he did not want to cause a hot war either. On 12 May 1949, he admitted defeat and reopened the borders.April 1949, the western Allies set up NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) as a defensive alliance against Russia, and in May 1949, America, Britain and France united their zones into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). In October 1949, Stalin set up the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Blockadedid the Cold War develop in the period 1949 to 1963? The Berlin Blockade, the pattern of foreign relations as a Cold War was set: the USA and the USSR acted as rivals in a competition for world domination.
-1963Korean WarKorean War was another conflict which was part of the Cold War, and which - although very different in nature from the Berlin Blockade - was still w...
