The Most Significant Tp In The Cw Before 1953 Was The Kw- Assess The Validity Of This View

Question 1

Korean War did represent the militarisation of the Cold War and globalisation of containment

Answer 1

E.g first proxy war, hot conflict-set the stage for future wars , actualisation of nsc68 , intensifies Asia focus which devils further under Truman.
Cp= not a total reshaping but an intensification

Question 2

Berlin blockade was a tp in the extent to which it represented the first major crisis and solidified tensions surrounding Germany

Answer 2

E.g closest us and ussr had come to conflict so far- threat of using military in the blockade. Resulted in the ossification of the flashpoint with the creation of east and west Germany in 1949 e.g Soviet’s abandoned unification of Germany, as well as contributed significantly to nato and log term Warsaw pact 1955-sig bodies in long term cw tensions.
Cp= tensions were pre-existing so bb did not result in an sig change in tensions or policy.
Ev= tensions surrounding Germany had existed since the conferences in 1945 had failed to settle the issue.Bizonia and west German constitution prior to bb. The blockade did not significantly impact us or ussr cw policy which remained focused on containment and strengthening soviet sphere respectively.[fundamentals were still the same]

Question 3

Truman doctrine transformed tensions into conflict and laid the foundations for us policy for the remainder of the cw

Answer 3

E.g made in response to the Greek civil war in 1947 and growing fears as a result of long telegram, represent the foundations of the us Cold War strategy- resulted in the mp which was a financial manifestation of td, financial package of $13.5 , arguably started the cw with massive increase in tensions and drawing of ‘battle lines’- Marshall aid recipients vs sovietised/ not allowed. Radical shift in approach of containment due to the potential subjugation of satellite states under Stalin ‘barbarian invasion of the east’ and William l Clayton’s report. Isolationism to active global containment.
Cp= did not create tensions, or result in an immediate conflict.
Ev= lack of militarisation and the grand alliance was sill in tact, Stalin claimed dollar imperialism, but there was not an immediate crisis like Korea/bb.
Overall, Truman doctrine lays foundation, kw=militarisation of the policy laid out in doctrine and a consequence of the tensions created.