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Cold War- Origins Flashcards

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Definition of Cold War

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A period of hostility and tensions between the ussr and USA that stops just short of war, 1945-1989

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Effect of Stalinism

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Competition with the west, his dominance influenced paranoia and violence

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Keenan’s long telegram

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February 1946- calling for containment, from Riga sourced by exiles

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Churchill’s iron curtain speech

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March 1946- Fulton Missouri, communism as a threat

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Novikov’s statement about US foreign policy

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September 1946 ‘the goal of US foreign policy is world supremacy’

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Truman doctrine

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March 1947- ‘contain communist expansion’ (beginning of Cold War?)

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Sovietisation of Eastern Europe (salami tactics)

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1946-7: Elections manipulated, other parties restricted. CIA intervention in Albania, Poland

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Comic form

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September 1947- keep the Sovietised countries under Moscow’s control

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Zdhanov’s two camps doctrine

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1947- ‘Marshall plan was preparation to extend US power in order to launch a new world war’ ‘imp. and anti-democratic vs anti-imp. And democratic camps’

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Marshal plan

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April 1947 approved, $17bil assistance in return for open books and free trade. Humanitarian- witnessed, charitable and generous aid. Selfish- ‘dollar imperialism’, served interests, poverty bred communism

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Stalin blocks land routes in protest of the Deutschmark

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June 1948 in Berlin.

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NATO formed

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April 1949

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FDR and GDR formed

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May and October 1949

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NSC 68

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1950 outlines US’s cornerstone policy of containment

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Long term tensions

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Civil war 1917-22; wilsonian liberalism vs Marxist Leninism (1920s); appeasement of hitler in 1930s due to fear of communism; Arcos raid may 1927; 1930s excluded from League of Nations solved by Litvinov; N-S pact 1939; bad communication

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Number of army troops in Eastern Europe after ww2

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11 million

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USA’s industrial boom

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1940-4 industrial output increased 90%

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Comparative losses from ww2

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USSR lost 27mill people, USA only 330,000; ussr lost 60% of transport network and 70% of industry

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Power vacuum after ww2

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In Japan, Germany and indochina

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Mistrust and suspicion from ww2

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A bomb, common enemy gone differences returned, NS pact, late second front

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New world order of superpowers

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USSR and USA were head and shoulders above the world, empires were gone, they were fighting for supremacy

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Tehran

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November 1943: tensions over stalin’s demands to keep territory in e.europe and Poland, Japan. Agreed UN and the need for a weak post war Germany

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Yalta

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February 1945: 4Ds, $20bil reparations 50% to ussr, ussr got Poland and moved Oder-Neisse line east.

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Between conferences

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Roosevelt died April 1945; Germany surrendered may 1945; Attlee replaced Churchill; US A-bomb July 1945

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Potsdam

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July 1945: ‘thoroughly be tempered conference’. Disagreements of methods for the 4Ds, split into four zones

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Tensions over Germany

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Conferences; 1948-9 Berlin airlift; geopolitical and symbolic importance; ACC may 1946 reparations prevented by clay and Byrnes ‘Germantown needs to recover’; July 46 bizonia, June 48 trizonia; ussr feared military threat and resurgence of nazism

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Individual role

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  • each other’s regime was totally opposite and undermined the other
  • Stalin’s victories in Europe have him a position of leading power
  • Truman hard-lined, Poland London Lublin, Oder Neisse challenged
  • Roosevelt and Stalin were close, relationship upset
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Orthodox

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Stalin’s aggressive expansionism

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Revisionist

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Provocative US policy in Europe

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Post revisionist

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Complexity of the decisions on both sides

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Realpolitik

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Ideology less important than day to day political and diplomatic issues

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