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