Memory Cold War Key EventsVersion en ligne Cold War Key Events par Daniel Yoder Eastern European military alliance. Berlin Blockade Military Alliance of the Western Powers in the Cold War Iron Curtain Speech Soviet plan to help rebuild the economies of Eastern Europe. Response to the Marshall Plan in the West. Aid provided to nations resisting communism. First to receive aid were Turkey and Greece. Built in 1961 in order to stop defections from East Germany to the West. Tried to become democratic in 1956 only to have Soviet tanks roll in and stop the revolution. Truman Doctrine NATO Warsaw Pact Berlin Airlift American response to the Berlin Blockade. Aid to help rebuild European economies in order to ward off communism. Money had to be spent on American goods. Molotov Plan Berlin Wall Informal declaration of the Cold War identifying that there was a conflict between the Communist East and Democratic West An attempt to get the Americans to give up their influence over West Berlin by not allowing goods into the city. Hungary Marshall Plan