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