1- The person that first spoke of the "iron curtain" was Winston Churchill, who used it to refer to the border, not only physical but also ideological, which divided Europe into two blocks after the Second World War.
2- One goal of the Marshall Plan was to make European countries strong enough to start buying American goods. The Marshall Plan was a US initiative to help Western Europe, in which Americans gave economic aid worth about $13 billion at the time for the reconstruction of those countries in Europe devastated after the Second World War. The plan was in operation for four years since 1948. The objectives of the United States were to rebuild those areas destroyed by the war, eliminate barriers to trade, modernize European industry and make the continent prosperous again; all these objectives were intended to prevent the spread of communism and to promote the trade of American goods once the European economies were recovered.
3- In order to try to gain control over West Berlin, the Soviet Union set up a total blockade cutting off that section of the city by building the Berlin Wall.
4- In China's civil war, the United States backed the Nationalists, led by Jiang Jieshi. The United States aided the nationalists with surpluses of their military supplies worth hundreds of millions of dollars and with the generous loan of hundreds of millions of military equipment.
5- After President Truman fired him, American public viewed General MacArthur as a hero. Upon his return from Korea, he was met with a massive popular adulation of his person, which raised the expectation that he could stand for the 1952 legislative elections as a candidate of the Republican Party of the United States.
