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President Truman's Outbreak Of The Cold War

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The Cold War really began in 1945 after the end of WWII with the defeat of Germany and Japan, and in 1946 it really began to take hold after speeches and the ideology that communism and capitalism were incompatible. Then soon after, “Stalin and Churchill issued their declarations of cold war” (LaFeber 44). After the general elections of 1945, Winston Churchill was voted out and replaced by Clement Attlee, so Harry Truman invited Churchill to go to the U.S. to give a speech and let the people see him. During the visit, on March 5, 1946, while visiting Westminster College in Missouri, Churchill gave his famous iron curtain speech, and claims that there is an iron curtain on the border where the red army occupies. He continues, saying that there …show more content…

During this, Truman presented his Truman Doctrine in which he called all the American people to join him in the fight for the containment of communism and prevent the advancement of communism. This ideology fueled American foreign policy as a whole for years to come, and in some ways, is still visible today. In 1948, the Berlin blockade begins as Stalin thinks that the U.S. is trying to push them out, so he retaliates by making a blockade and trying to starve out West Berlin in an effort to make the allies move out from the pressure of no supplies being there, but this leads into the Berlin airlift. (Wilson Lecture). The Berlin airlift began with Curtis Lemay scrounging the world for allied planes in order to try and supply the city just by using planes, and a plane landed every thirty seconds to bring in supplies an after a couple months, Stalin began to look not as tough so he retracted the blockade in 1949 (Wilson Lecture). The Korean war start on June 25, 1950, and is a UN flag war, but often known as the forgotten war and American troops are put in South Korea to stop communism from …show more content…

Marshall, and was known as the Europe recovery program of where he provides massive economic aid packages to western Europe. (Wilson Lecture). Also around this time, the alphabet soup of Washington occurred with tons of new agencies being created as well as a permanent military buildup for the U.S. to fight communism anytime, with an influx of defense spending (Wilson Lecture). In 1956, Nasser “seized the Suez Canal” (LaFaber 189) which was simply unacceptable to the British and French who refused to risk their 67 million tons of oil that traveled through the Suez in 1955, in the hands of Nasser. In 1961, the Berlin Wall goes up, and the Bay of Pigs invasion occurs, which was a full-scale military invasion against Cuba by the U.S. that failed miserably with the U.S. troops being quickly outnumbered and they surrendered within 24 hours. In 1959, Fidel Castro takes over Cuba soon later in 1962, the Cuban Missile crisis really takes hold with the U.S. terminating diplomatic relations between

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By establishing the Truman Doctrine, his main goal was to keep other nations who were resisting Communism to be able to stand up for themselves. Since the Soviet Union was in the midst of all Communist activity, Truman knew that Stalin would eventually spread his beliefs into other parts of the world. Fearing that he would lose yet another nation to Stalin, Truman quickly decided that he had to do something to help other countries who were in need of political and monetary aid. As a result, the Truman Doctrine was first created when Truman stood before Congress on March 12, 1947, and asked for $400 million to fight Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey. When Congress approved Truman’s request, he was able to send political, military, and economic assistance to Greece and other democratic nations that were under threat from Stalin (history.state.gov).

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And a way to stop the appeal of communism in depraved countries was by restoring international economies and promoting capitalism. One of the major events that occurred was the building of the Berlin Wall, which cut of West Berlin from communication and supplies. The Berlin blockade was an effort by the Soviet Union to cause the Allied powers to abandon their control of West Berlin after World War II. However, this was combated by the Berlin Airlifts, which flew needed supplies to the people in West Berlin. This idea of preventing communism was also displayed in document I.

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only increased because of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Because the CIA hurt Cuba and the U.S.’s foreign relationship, Cuba turned to the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Cuba’s ties with the U.S.S.R. drove the U.S. even further away from working with Cuba and created later tensions like the Cuban missile crisis. With more time, the U.S. and Cuba relations worsened, and it all started because of the CIA’s plan to overthrow Castro. Only now in 2016, has a U.S. president visited Cuba.

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After WWII the U.S. and USSR emerged as the 2 world superpowers, as such Americans felt the need to aid others in their struggle for democracy and their European allies, this feeling led to the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlifts, and ultimately the Cold

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Section 1 Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation will focus on the question, 'To what extent did the Berlin airlift impact the resolution of the Cold War?". Around Western Berlin, the Berlin airlift occurred from June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949. This investigation explores the efforts that went into organizing the Airlift, its impact on the citizens of west berlin, and how the event aided in the Cold War resolution. The overall effort of the Airlift was to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime.

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The US was working hard to prevent the spread of communism, or an economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules. The Truman Doctrine supported those who helped contain communism. The US launched the Marshall Plan to provide economic assistance to European nations, countering support for Communists in Europe. The United States began to drift away from isolationism, and one

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It can be argued that the end of World War II marked a new 'post-war world', and there was a need for effective international relations, and a discussion on reparations for Germany, and foreign policies. Conferences such as Potsdam, or Yalta, played significant roles in global relations, and marked a transitional period for the Cold War. President Harry S Truman made a speech, entitled the 'Truman Doctrine' to the United States Congress in March of 1947, regarding Soviet expansion and the "struggle against communism" in democratic states, namely the U.S. The Truman Doctrine speech stemmed from fear of Soviet expansion and Communist parties in Europe, especially Soviet pressure on Greece and Turkey. President Truman wished to prevent further expansion and adopt a policy of containment, involving an 'interventionist role' in Western Europe.

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Another interesting event to note is the Berlin Airlift. The American foreign policy following WWII was called ‘Containment’ which basically means that America cannot stop communism but we can top it from spreading. Following WWII we adopted something called the Marshall Plan which was “crucial to the overall strategy of rebuilding Europe’s war-torn economies.” It was a European recovery program to rebuild Europe’s currency, economy and to foster free trade. But there was another motive to George Marshall’s plan and that was Containment.

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Once the blockade was put up the The United States of America couldn’t deliver the supplies West Berlin needed because they drove the supplies by cars. The Soviet Union knew this was going to happen and was hoping that the The United States of America would surrender West Berlin. The The United States of America did find a way to get West Berlin the supplies they needed, the The United States of America would fly airplanes to West Berlin with the supplies they needed. This was one way the The United States of America contained communism because the blockade was taken down in May 12, 1949. The strategy the The United States of America used was economics because the The United States of America had the money to quickly change giving West Berlin supplies from car to air

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Topic Brief Description Causes Effect and/or Outcome Truman Doctrine The Truman Doctrine started by President Truman, who believed that the United States should support free nations whose governments were resisting being overthrown by armed minorities or outside pressures. The cause is that the 1947, the Soviets seemed on the verge of supporting communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey. Truman asked Congress to supply aid to both countries and declared that the policy of the United States should be to support free peoples who were resisting attempted subjugation. The outcome is that the policy of containment led the United States to support noncommunist governments in many parts of the world.

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The international disputes are that the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to U.S. The only way to terminate the lease is for a mutual agreement, or total US abandonment of the area. On Jan. 3, 1961 the revolution leader Fidel Castro broke ties with U.S. and aligned himself with the Soviet Union. The U.S. initially welcomed what looked like a democratic Cuba, but within a few months, Castro established military tribunals for political opponents and jailed hundreds. Castro disavowed Cuba 's 1952 military pact with the U.S. and proceeded to confiscate U.S. assets, and established Soviet-style collective farms.

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When the pilot of an American U2 spy plane was passing over Cuba, photographs were taken of an enormous missile being installed only 90 miles off the coast of Florida. President John F. Kennedy was taken aback by this and immediately wanted the missile removed. Of course, that process would not be easy at all. The confrontation that went on between the United States and Soviet Union was called the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Most Defining Event of the Cold War. This all began when Fidel Castro, a Cuban politician and the Prime Minister of Cuba, aligned himself with the Soviet Union.

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During the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis took place. It was when two superpowers were close to causing a nuclear war. Its main origin was when the United States invaded Cuba, on April 10, 1961; which is also known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. After the invasion, previous Prime Minister; Fidel Castro of Cuba, was ‘paranoid’ because he felt like America was planning another attack. So in order to protect his nation, he sought military and economic help from the Soviet Union.

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This became one of the first of many international crisis of the Cold War, in which America responded well, not destroying the blockade or attacking the Soviets, but by delivering supplies through an alternate route until the USSR had no choice but to acknowledge their actions were futile and remove the blockade. Just before the Berlin Blockade and right before Harry Truman became president he said, “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisted subjugation by armed or outside pressures.” (A) This concept surely followed him into the incident involving West Berlin and he stayed true to his ideas in helping the citizens living there obtain resources, despite the Soviets

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The U.S. wanted to stop communism, and thus began the Cold war. The U.S. had two ways to attempt to stop communism, The Truman Doctrine and The Marshall plan. The Truman Doctrine helped countries who were exposed to the

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