Containing the Red Menace The Cold War Begins I II The Eagle vs the Bear Anticommunism and the Cold War a Soviet Union US Enemy 1 The Rise of Containment a 1945 What to do about the Soviets Eastern Europe b The Containment doctrine i Made official by Truman with the Truman ii Articulated by George Kennan in Foreign Doctrine Affairs 1946 iii Greece 1947 1 British slipping money to Greece to support and protect them from communism but they don t have enough money so they ask the US to he help 2 US gives 400 million to Greece and defeats communism threats iv Monolithic Communism 1 Definition all communists anywhere in the world are under the control of the Soviet Union 2 Reality not true lots of rivalries divisions etc c Non violent Containment i The Marshall Plan 1947 1 US sends 16 billion in aide to western Europe to rebuild its economy and to also eliminate the threat of communism a New Deal for Europe After the war Europe in ruins food scarce poverty everywhere 2 Offered to Soviet Union as well but they declined ii CIA covert sponsorship of music Louis Armstrong art Jackson Pollack films etc to advertise against communism in Europe d Potentially Violent Containment i The Berlin Airlift 1948 Stalin cuts west Berlin off from west Germany US airlifts fly over Berlin and drop supplies ends peacefully V 1949 50 China goes Communist and the Soviets get The Bomb a Who lost China b Communists take over and non communists move to Taiwan VI Publication of NSC 68 1950 a Briefing written to President Truman about the Soviet Union supposed to help him decide what to do b Said Soviets are on a march for world domination and they want to destroy the US and we need a big military just in case in a nutshell c Adds a militaristic edge to containment policy VII Containment gets Violent the Korean War 1950 53 a US sends in troops to help but by late 1950 they had been pushed to the Pusan perimeter b American troops push North Korea back c The Chinese invasion and stalemate d 3 years of stalemate ends the war people begin to get very paranoid
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