During the Cold War, the Soviets took over Eastern Europe and made it communist, the United States saw this "buffer zone" as a threat to the spread of communism. Additionally, when the USSR delivered the “Two Camps Speech” in 1946, it declared that the world was now divided between two hostile camps, either communism or capitalism. This speech was seen as a warning of the inevitable war between the two superpowers and also that the spread of communism was not going to stop. Even with this in mind, the United States still offered aid to all countries rebuilding after World War II under the Marshall Plan of 1947; However, Stalin retaliated by developing the Molotov Plan, forcing all Soviet-controlled countries and allies to refuse any form of aid from the United States. The Soviets wanted nothing to do with the capitalist states, they only wanted to convert them all into