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The Cold War Develops 1945 - 1953
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History Mapa Mental sobre The Cold War Develops 1945 - 1953, creado por ChristianLowe el 16/04/2014.
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The Cold War Develops 1945 - 1953
The Post-War Legacy
Defeat of Nazi Germany creates a power vacuum in Europe into which the USA and USSR are drawn
Eurocentric dominance of global affairs vanished overnight
'If I had a second chance, I would rather be born an American.' - Winston Churchill
European economy shattered and desperate for reconstruction and aid
Rising suspicion and distrust between the former wartime allies
Allied delay in opening a 'Second Front' in Europe irks Stalin
Churchill's' 'Iron Curtain' speech in Missouri 1946 addresses the new superpower balance
1945 Yalta and Potsdam conferences
Initial disagreements over Poland at Yalta and agreement for the division of Germany, Berlin and Austria
Disagreement over Soviet presence in Eastern Europe at Potsdam 1945
American Post-War Attitudes
Emerges from the War as the worlds' dominant economy
'We have emerged from this war the most powerful nation in the world - the most powerful nation, perhaps, in all history.' - Harry Truman
Viewed an open international economic system as indispensable to future world order
Marshall Aid plan designed to flood Western Europe with economic aid at the expense of openness to US investment and trade
Military-industrial complex has benefited from wartime production stimulus
American security concerns
Attack on Pearl Harbour persuades US security planners of need for a comprehensive international defence system
A view that no one power should ever again control the European/Eurasian continent
Commitment to maintaining supremacy of the atomic bomb
Ideological Commitments
Nationwide belief in the idea of American/capitalist justice and order
Truman replaces Roosevelt
Influenced by George Kennan's 'Long Telegram' citing the USSR as an insecure and expansionist world force
The 'Truman Doctrine' adopts an 'Iron Fist' approach to the advancement of the communist world
Soviet Post-War Attitudes
Soviet secuirty concerns
Immediate aim to block the 'Polish Corridor'
Historical invasion route into Russia - Napoleon/WW1/WW2
Stalin's obsession with security difficult for the US to truly understand and was perceived as evidence of communist expansionism
Aimed to create a network of buffer states across the European border by using incumbent Red Army forces to establish pro-Soviet governments
Ideological Commitments
Marxist-Leninism ideology pronounced eventual triumph of communism over capitalism inevitable
'Our ideology stands for offensive operations when possible, and if not, we wait.' - V.M. Molotov
Ideology imparted to Soviet citizens a belief in the justice of communism versus exploitative Western capitalism
Economy devastated by Nazi invasion, sought to secure reparations from East German territory
Events in Europe
Berlin Blockade 1948-1949
Growing prosperity of West Berlin financed by Marshall Aid in stark contrast to East Berlin
Attempts by the West to introduce new currency into West Berlin angers Stalin, who blocks all transport links into the city
Berlin airlift successfully supplied West Berlin for nearly a year, and in May 1949 Stalin conceded defeat and lifted the blockade
NATO established by the West to coordinate response to future Soviet aggression
US Government issues the Marshall Plan to help the European economy and strengthen Western governments against communism
Financial aid only sent to nations willing to open up their markets to US trade
Eastern European nations under Soviet influence did not receive aid
Stalin launches the COMECON plan in 1949 to coordinate the economies of communist nations
1948 communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia provides evidence of communist expansion
Cold War Spreads to Asia
Mao Zedong triumphs over Chiang Kai Shek and declares a coomunist People's Republic of China in 1949
Viewed in America as surefire evidence of communist expansion
Kim Jong Il invades South Korea in 1950
Truman issues NSC-68, outlining the new US policy of 'Roll Back' - a basis for a more aggressive US foreign policy
Committed to 'Roll Back' American led UN forces land at Inchon and push back North Korean forces to the Chinese border
Chinese forces cross the Yalu river and push the UN forces back, until a stalemate is achieved at the 38th parallel
Communist China secures a degree of world standing after it's military operations in Korea, and grows ever closer to Stalin and Moscow
USSR detonates first atomic bomb in 1949
US detonates hydrogen bomb in 1952
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