the greek civil war Flashcards
what was the seen as a cataypt that triggered a fundemental reoriention of us policey ?
greek civil war
who were the civil war between?
the monarchist and greek communistwhen greece was liberated from the nazi occupation
what happend in feburary 1947?
brotain stopped providing aid to the anti-commnunist forces in greece and appealed to the usa to assume the financial burden-due to harvest problems going on in britian
who was stalin unsympathetic to and why?
indegenous commnunist revolutions becase he could not ensure moscow’s control
what was truman keen to do but why couldn’t he?
keen to be invovled in greece however could not ensure congess support as most of congress was isolationist
when did the democrates lose the election and why?
1946 mid-term elections due the success of the repulican
what did truman exagerrate and distort?
the threat posed by commnunism and dramtized the conflict between the united states and the soviet union as a conflict between sets of ideas