The Molotov Plan is pretty straightforward. While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union co...

The Morgenthau Plan (named after Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau) was created before Germany surrendered, but after the writing was on the wall that Germany was going to. Essentially, t...

U.S. foreign policy from about 1945 to 1989 revolved round fighting the Soviet Union without actually fighting the Soviet Union. There are two reasons for this. First, both Napoleon and Hitler prov...