Origins Of The Cold War

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Intro: Kick-off.
When did the Cold War start?

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The year is 1945, Post WWII, ...

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(Doesn't end until 1991)

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Intro: Kick-off.
Who were the two power's/leaders involved at the onset?

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USA -- Truman vs.

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USSR-- Stalin

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Intro:
Motive -- the dividing line?

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U.S. demanded self determination vs.

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U.S.S.R. demanded security

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Intro: [Thesis]
Whats the argument?

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Post WWII, two power nations emerge, the USA and USSR,
BUT, do not share the same principles of freedom and social justice, ...

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the origins of the Cold War may have began over territory protection, but it was really a power struggle over economics and political ideology -- in essence, Capitalism vs Communism.

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What happens as WWII is settling?

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1945 Post WII America emerges victorious as protectors of the free-world

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USSR emerges in protect mode fearing another German invasion installs pro-communist Govt. in Bulgaria, Romania & Poland.

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What does the world think?

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USSR has broken the Yalta agreement

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Greece and Turkey are under communist threat.

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Whats going on with Britain empire? What do they do?

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British resources are exhausted – Churchill’s famous an “iron curtain” has descended across Europe speech

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-- appeal to US help to protect Europe from further Soviet encroachment

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How is popular thought, the barriers and angle taken?
Whats the foreign policies social influence?

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TRUMAN DOCTRINE:
Still seeing security in isolationism it’s a hard sell, so pitches end of freedom without Int. police intervention “protectors of the free world,” first they’ll take Europe then???

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New language that would reverberate throughout Foreign Policy

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What did the Truman Doctrine request?
What Agencies emerge?

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Request of 400M in military aid for Greece/Turkey -- eminent danger of communist threat

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Created 3 new agencies Atomic Energy Commission, National Security Council NSC & CIA

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What message did the "Truman Doctrine" send to the world?

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It was the first expression of rigid cold war mentality.

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It sent a powerful message to anti communist regimes that militarily America would take a global stand for freedom, and set a precedent for "Marshall Plan."

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What's Marshall Plan mean economically, Who's Marshall?
Whats the support?

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Marshall Plan: the “New Deal” for Europe by Secretary of State Gorge C. Marshall
1. US pledged billions for EU economic recovery –assisted in food gaps and reconstruction.

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Supported containment by combating widespread fear of communism since the depression.

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Paragraph 3: Wrap.
Marshall Plan -- Part 1: Economically.
Whats Marshall's agenda and slogan?

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Marshall used word pictures of hunger poverty and desperate chaos vs. a higher standard of living and the right to production, slogan “Prosperity makes you free” Truman

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Most successful European relief aid in history rebuilt Europe

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Marshall Plan -- Part 2: Militarily, why?
Whats the result?

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2. Military build up of U.S. forces and alliances:
The four way split in Berlin, Stalin’s blockade and its consequences

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NATO National Atlantic Treaty Organization -- members Germany, France, Britain, most of Western Europe, Greece and Turkey
Soviets responded with the Warsaw Pact Members -- Soviet, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and E. Germany

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Two other impacting factors?

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US demilitarization of Japan.

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the test of containment in the Korean wars. US intervention and the threat with China at Inchon that almost turned the cold war HOT!

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Who is the NSC?
How was the cold war described?

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The NSC’s 1950 manifesto described the Cold War as an epic struggle between the “idea of freedom,”...

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and the idea of “slavery under the grim oligarchy of the Kremlin”

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Conclusion: was the hostility inevitable? Why

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Of course it was...

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Say no to a superpower they will always push back, particularly when they fervently believe their way is the righteous one!

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Conclusion:
Were there critics?
Why?

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Yes few sided with the Soviet’s with their one party rule, and stringent control of arts and intellectual life – opp. of democracy and free enterprise!

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Some argued casting Cold War as a battle against freedom and slavery had its consequences

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Conclusion:
Critique #1?
Who and what was said?

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George Kennan -- designed containment plan

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-- said the language made it impossible to view an international crisis on a case-by-case basis to determine which ones genuinely involved freedom to American interest!

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Conclusion:
Critique #2
Who and what was said?

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Walter Lippmann, leading journalist

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-- objected to turning "foreign policy" into an ideological crusade and every challenge of the status quo as a contest with the soviets.

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Conclusion: Wrap
What do I think?

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Maybe it’s my pacifistic, socialist indoctrination, but the use of fear and social justice to manipulate large masses, and enforcing your countries ideologies on others, neither looks, nor sounds like freedom to me.

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I’m glad Europe got help, but America's positioning as the international "police state" -- the ultimate savior of the free world and its pervasive jingoism is questionable at best. Perhaps I’m just too naïve to the dangers of communist threat.