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| Developed by the U.S. secretary of the treasury to transform Germany back into an exclusively agricultural society. |
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| Provided financial aid to countries after WWII. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| Formed to rearm non-Communist Europe and safeguard it against invasion. |
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| French-sponsored. Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, and West Germany formed the European Coal and Steel Community to pool their resources in 1952. |
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| Formed as an alliance by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satelite nations as an answer to the formation of NATO by Western Europe. |
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| European Economic Community |
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| Created by Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, and West Germany. Aimed at an end to internal tariffs and the free exchange of money and workers between members. By 1968, its plan would be in full effect. Britain, Ireland, and Denmark joined in 1973. |
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| First artificial earth satellite. Launced by the U.S.S.R. in 1957. |
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| Formulated by Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Communist party, in 1968. Stated that the U.S.S.R. had the right to intervene in the internal affairs of any satellite nation if communism was threatened. |
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| Announced in 1947. Pledged U.S. military aid to Greece, Turkey, and any other nation threatened with Communist aggression and expansion. |
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