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3/24/2015 4:02:00 pm: the bomb, rumors spread of german physicists figuring out how to split a uranium atom, manhattan project, groups of physicists that worked on the atomic bomb, robert oppenheimer physics professor @ berkley. C. characteristics of american involvement in the cold war. 4. the existence of nuclear weapons on both sides. A. truman doctrine a de facto declaration of the cold war: outlined the broad parameters of u. s. Cold war foreign policy: the soviet union was the center of all communist activity, the united states needed to provide military and economic assistance to protect nations from communist aggression. Secretary of state george c. marshall: successfully sparked economic recovery, restoring the confidence of the european people in the economic future of their own countries and of europe as a whole. C. berlin airlift the soviet-german occupied area of berlin was blocked off, allowing no one to get supplies: us and allies carried tons of cargo over to the isolated side.