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