Relying initially on our nuclear monopoly and subsequently on our nuclear deterrent, during the first dozen or so years of the Cold War Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy approved assistance to Greece and Turkey, the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO and other alliances, and a strategy of containing the USSR. They also promoted the establishment of international financial institutions at Bretton Woods, the formation of the United States Information Agency and the United States Agency for International Development, and the use of CIA covert actions around the world—all nonmilitary
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