HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 22 Outline of Previous Lecture I World War II and Economic Recovery II African Americans and War Mobilization III Women and Mobilization gender conflicts IV Japanese Americans and Racial Hysteria Outline of Current Lecture I The Eagle vs the Bear Anticommunism and the Cold War II The Rise of Containment III 1949 50 China goes Communist and the Soviets get The Bomb IV Publication of NSC V Containment gets Violent the Korean War Current Lecture I II The Eagle vs the Bear Anticommunism and the Cold War a The US and the Soviets are allies b 1945 The Nazis have surrendered c Both Liberals and Conservatives are Communists The Rise of Containment a Even before the war is over the US are thinking about the peace and what will happen in Europe b The Russians want to have a buffer between them and the Germans they wanted to ensure that whatever countries were around them would help them c Europe is divided half is communist and the other half is not communist d The Containment doctrine i Articulated by George Kennan in Foreign Affairs 1946 1 Writes an anonymous journal in a newspaper and calls himself MR X 2 He lays out his plan about what to do with the Soviets 3 He believes that the US should engage in long term containment of Soviets Keep them pinned up in Europe and not let them get out ii Greece 1947 1 The Greece are communist and are trying to control the British 2 The British go to the US and ask us to help them out 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 III IV V 3 We send troops over to Greece and they stopped the Communist movement 4 The Monarchist and the Fashists are victorious 5 The Truman Doctrine Makes containment official US policy 6 Other people thought Monolithic Communism was people who were under control from the Soviets they were doing the bidding of the soviets a The World was freaking out that there would be a communist global revolution b Reality not true lots of rivalries divisions etc e Non Violent Containment i The Marshal Plan 1947 1 16 billion in aide to western Europe to rebuild its economy a New Deal for Europe ii CIA Covert sponsorship of music art films etc 1 Had to be pro revolutionary 2 Art in the service of Ideology f Potentially Violent Containment i The Berlin Airlift 1948 ii Berlin was conquered and divided into 4 pieces Russian French British American iii Berlin is near East Germany and is connected to the rest of the free world by one railroad iv East Germany decides to cut Berlin off from the rest of the world v President Truman decides to fly aircrafts over East Germany and land in Berlin to take them food water and other supplies 1949 50 China goes Communist and the Soviets get The Bomb The most populist country goes communist The US start to think that it was their fault that China went communist The Russians get the bomb 1950 Publication of NSC a The NSC is a document that gives Truman a run down on the Soviet war capacity and a bunch of suggestions on what should be done to counter them b It is a very aggressive document c Adds a militaristic edge to containment policy Containment gets Violent the Korean War a The Chinese invasion and stalemate
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