Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Origins and Development of the Cold War,
1941-1950
- Key Content
- Tensions in the wartime
alliance against the Axis
powers
- The warime allinace happened
when both the US and USSR
- The US and the
USSR emerged as
Superpowers
- The countries had
very different
views and aims
- The US was a supreme
capitalist country
- The US was a supreme
capitalist country
- worry led to fear; fear caused the
breakdown of the wartime alliance
- hostility and mutual antipathy
- Peacemaking at the end of
World War II
- Yalta
- Stalin
- Anthony Eden
- Roosevelt
- Potsdam Conference
- Stalin
- Truman
- Incrreasing tensions in a
divided Europe
- The truman
Doctrine and the
Marshall Plan
- Truman believed
that the US would
have to be much
more active in
world affairs if it
was going to halt
the spread of
communism
- Truman Doctrine
- a plan for containing
communism and
dictatorships by helping
countries like Greece and
Turkey get back on their
economic feet
- Marshall Plan
- an expanded version of
the Truman Doctrine
and a part of the
containment policy. The
US ended up giving $12
billion to help Europe
rebuild after WW2. We
did this to stop the
spread of Communism
in western Europe.
- The Berlin Blockade
and Airlift
- Berlin Airlift
- Joint effort by the US and Britain to
fly food and supplies into West Berlin
after the Soviet blocked off all ground
routes into the city
- Berlin Blockade
- 1948: Soviet response to US, Britain,
and France uniting their parts of
Germany into West Germany. West
allies got around it with the Berlin
Air Lift.
- Key Approaches
- How far were inherent
tensions between East and
West bound to resurface in
1945?
- How important were the
personalities of the leaders of the
Great Powers in shaping the Cold
War?
- How far were the ideology,
security and economics the
factors which created Cold War
tensions?
- The
Traditional
approach
- Appeared- a
decade after
the end of the
Seocnd World
War
- Places the responsibility
for the Cold War on the
Soviet Union and its
expanision into Eastern
Europe
- The
Revisionist
approach
- Placed more responsibility for
the breakdown of postwar peace
on the United States
- efforts to isolate and confront
the Soviet Union well before the
end of WW2
- Argued that American
policymakers sharded an
overarching concern with
maintaining the market
system and democracy
- Revisionists believed that to obtain that
objective the US wanted an Open Door
Policy abroad, aimed at increasing access
to foreign markets for US business and
agriculture
- Post-revisionist
approaches
- Not so much the responsibilty of
either side but rather the result
of predictable tensions between
two world powers that had been
suspicious of one another for
nearly a century
- How have the perspectives on the Cold War
of Russian historians differed from those in
the West?
- Reinterpretations of the
Cold War in the light of
new archival sources
- The emergence of the
'New Cold War history