Berlin Airlift: German children cheer American plane delivering supplies to Berlin, 1948

Events in Europe suggested a Soviet drive toward domination:
 

Composition of the Poland Government, 1945-46

Cooperation in the Occupation of Germany, 1945 onward

Civil War in Greece, 1945-47: the Truman Doctrine of Containment

Communist seizure of power in Czechoslvakia, 2.48

Blockade of Berlin, 1948-49

Outside Europe:
 

Failure to remove Soviet Troops from No. Iran (1945-46)

Soviet aid to Communists in the Chinese Civil War (1945 on)

Communist Uprising against France in Indochina (1946 on)