Origins of the Cold War, c1945–1949: US Hardline policy Flashcards
US hard line policy in Iran
Soviets had occupied Iran in WWII
They didn’t uphold an agreement to withdraw from Iran on March 1st 1946
US went to UN to deal with issue
Troops withdrew in May 1946 afterwards
Soviets embarrassed US didn’t directly come to USSR to negotiate
Why is Iran geopolitically relevant
Oil
US hard line policy in finances/ dollar diplomacy
US attached more stringent conditions to loans to the USSR
USSR not interested
What conditions in dollar diplomacy did the US ask Soviets for in return for their loans
to drop trade barriers in Eastern Europe- makes them less of satellite states to USSR
By when were all financial negotiations over for the Soviets and US
June 1946- less than a year after Potsdam
What was the Baruch Plan:
a plan the US proposed for the frequent inspection of UN members’ nuclear weapons
US hard line policy in Nuclear diplomacy:
US refused to destroy their nukes until inspection arrangement were in place, while Soviets refused inspections until US destroyed their nukes
Instead, McMahon act signed 1946
What was the McMahon Act
Prohibited the exchange of atomic energy info w/ any foreign power- propels arms race
When was the McMahon Act
1946
US hard line policy in government hirings
Secretary of State James Byrnes resigned, replaced with George Marshall, more anti-Soviet
