HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 31 Outline of Last Lecture I Dr Spock and Teenage Delinquency A TV Shows and Movies II Civil Rights A Desegregation of Military B Jackie Robinson C Brown vs Board of Education D With all deliberate speed E Little Rock and Governor Faubus F Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr G SNCC Outline of Current Lecture I Truman Doctrine A Greek Civil War and Turkey II Marshall Plan III IV V VI George Kennan and Policy of Containment Churchill s Iron Curtain Speech Berlin Blockade Israel Current Lecture l The Truman Doctrine in 1946 stated that the U S must opposes all attempts domestic or foreign to subvert governments If the Soviets did not leave Turkey their government would be subverted This doctrine also stated that the U S must allocate funds to oppose aggression A In 1946 Greece is experiencing financial problems and they re engaged in a civil war between the Greek monarchists and the Greek communists The British government contacts Truman asking for U S assistance of the Greek monarchs Turkey also needs Truman s help to get the Soviet Union out of Turkey so he creates the Truman Doctrine ll These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute In 1947 Truman creates the Marshall Plan which gives 16 billion to any country in Europe who wants to participate in this program Each country must provide what they re going to be using this money for The Soviet Union doesn t participate and they don t allow any Eastern European countries they re occupying to participate either About 10 billion comes back to the U S in trade so it helps our economy as well lll George Kennan is from Russia and he writes an article in 1947 under the pen name Mr X so the Russians won t know who he is and his article is published in Foreign Affairs In this article Kennan talks about how Russia since the Mongols left pursue a policy of expansion He told the U S that they must pursue a policy of containment to contain communism where it is This becomes the official policy of the U S lV British Prime Minister Winston Churchill comes to the U S to give a commencement speech in 1947 saying an iron curtain has descended meaning Russian communism has spread to Eastern European countries as well V After WWll we only secured one pathway to Berlin before the Soviets got there We got West Germany they got East Germany To help the German economy we create a new currency in West Germany The Soviets are mad about this so they block the one road to Berlin We use planes to load supplies and drop them in West Berlin This lasts for a year before the Soviets finally stop blocking the road Vl In 1948 the United Nations has been established and the British are governing the Palestinian mandate It costs a lot of money so Britain pulls out and Israel declares itself a nation state and we confirm it We had guilt complex because we had turned away Jews and they were sent back to Germany and put in death camps so this is why we accepted them as a nation state so quickly We got to the U N attempting to create a Palestinian states next to Israel but they rejected this because they refused to recognize Israel as a nation and they wanted all of the land or nothing so they got nothing
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