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Beginning of Cold War
- War of Words
- 1946 - Europe divided:
capitalism→west→Churchill
communism→East→Stalin
- Both sides viewed each
other as opponents as
opponents rather than allies
- 1946 - Europe divided:
capitalism→west→Churchill
communism→East→Stalin
- Secret Telegrams
- Truman & Stalin→concerned
about breakdown of Grand
Alliance & threat of new war.
→asked for secret reports
from embassies to understand
how opponents were
thinking→sent as telegrams
- Truman & Stalin→concerned
about breakdown of Grand
Alliance & threat of new war.
→asked for secret reports
from embassies to understand
how opponents were
thinking→sent as telegrams
- Long Telegram 1946
- secret report from
Kennan→Americas ambassador
in Moscow
- It reported that:
- -Stalin gave
speech→destruction
of capitalism
- -no peace with USSR while
it was opposed to capitalism
- -USSR→building up military power
- -USA→should seek to contain
communism
- -Stalin gave
speech→destruction
of capitalism
- secret report from
Kennan→Americas ambassador
in Moscow
- Novikov's Telegram 1946
- Novikov→Soviet ambassador→sent
telegram to Stalin→it reported:
- -America desired
to dominate world
- -following Roosevelt's
death→American
government not
interested in
cooperation with USSR
- -American
public→being
prepared for
war with USSR
- -America desired
to dominate world
- Both governments
believed in possibility of
war. USSR→believed war
with America was
inevitable. Stalin→'new
Hitler'→preparing for war
and had to be stopped
- Novikov→Soviet ambassador→sent
telegram to Stalin→it reported:
- Verge of Cold War
- Beginning of 1947- Truman→America
must stand against communism
- Truman Doctrine
- Truman asked American
military to assess
strength of USSR's army
- world had choice between communist
tyranny & democratic freedom
- communism→not allowed to
grow/gain territory
- America→responsibility to fight
for liberty where threatened:
→send troops to help governments
threatened by communists
- suggested America had
responsibility to protect world
- stated clearly that capitalism and
communism were in opposition→no further
cooperation between East and West due to
ideological differences→marked unofficial end
of Grand Alliance and beginning of Cold War
- America wouldn't invade USSR→make every effort to
stop spread of communism
- Truman asked American
military to assess
strength of USSR's army
- Truman Doctrine
- America believed USSR was planning
world domination & vice versa
- Beginning of 1947- Truman→America
must stand against communism
- Marshall Plan
- containment of communism
- aimed to beat communism
through military force
- committed $13billion to rebuild
shattered economies of Europe
- many countries were keen to receive
Marshall aid→16 countries (including Britain
and France) welcomed Marshall aid seeing it
as way of rebuilding their economy &
defeating communism in their own countries
- containment of communism
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