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