The USA Was More To Blame For The Outbreak Of The Cold War

Question 1

Tested the Atomic bomb (1945)

Answer 1

• The USA neglected to tell the USSR about the detonation of their atomic bomb a few days after Potsdam
• Gave the US the monopoly effect

Question 2

The Truman Doctrine

1947

Answer 2

• American foreign policy to counteract the Soviet geopolitical expansion
• Focused on the idea of containment

Question 3

Marshall aid

1948

Answer 3

• Represented the economic arm of the USA’s attack on the spread of communism in war torn Europe

Question 4

NATO

1949

Answer 4

• The western allies set up NATO as a defensive alliance against the USSR

Question 5

The long telegram

1946

Answer 5

• George Kenna worked for the US embassy in Moscow and was very trusted
• Concluded Stalin was irrational and could not be reassured that the USA was not out to destroy communism
• Bound to be conflict
• Kennan believed the US should adopt a new tougher policy of containment

Question 6

Iron curtain speech

1946

Answer 6

• Not the USA
• First public declaration of tension between the powers
• Provocative

Question 7

Ignored the needs of the USSR

Answer 7

• The USSR had security needs to prevent another invasion from Germany

Question 8

Truman reverted from the Yalta axioms back to the Riga Axioms

Answer 8

• He felt a strong stance was needed to control totalitarianism moving from internal to external
• Truman listened to the Long telegram and felt he need to revert from the soft approach to communism Roosevelt took