Stalin's Failure To Deal With The Soviet Union

People didn’t like Truman because they thought he was unfit to be FDR’s successor. Acheson’s plan to deal with the Soviet Union was to advocate containment policy.

Stalin wanted a friendly gov’t on its borders in Eastern Europe while the US wanted to pursue their economic interests and domination abroad.

The hypocritical thing Stalin pointed out about the US was that it demanded democratic elections in Eastern Europe and at the same time supported dictatorships friendly to the US interests in Latin America. The Allies divided Germany unable to settle differences regarding its future.

Churchill famously said the iron curtain analogy about the Eastern Europe. George Kennan came up with a plan to handle communism with containment.

The idea that

1948: The US pilots airlifted goods to sustain West Berlin.

The Soviet got the A-bomb in 1949. The US did not shrink military spending in the peacetime of the late 1940s.

America’s 1948 alliance: NATO. The CIA was created to gather intelligence information that posed a threat to national security.

Many “Third World” countries’ leaders were impressed with the rapid economic growth of Russia and adopted socialist or communist ideas. 1949: Truman gets blamed for the Civil War in China.

The Employment Act of 1946 makes the gov’t responsible for supplying jobs. The two economic problems Truman faced were inflation and little production of goods that could not meet the demand.

The 3 factors that contributed to the economic boom after 1947 were: (1) wartime profits; (2) defense spending; and (3) soaring birthrate increased consumers’ demand.

Jackie Robinson was the first black to play in white major league baseball game. Medgar Evers was turned back by armed whites for trying to vote in Mississippi.

Latinos combatted discrimination through the creation of the League of United Latin-American

President and VP from 1952 election: Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Nixon gave the “Checkers speech” to secure his vice presidential ticket in the election due to controversies he’s involved in.

The Korean War ended in stalemate. NSC 68 resulted in an increase of the US capacity to act as a global power.

One example of Truman’s time as president that changed the US in foreign affairs and domestically was his involvement in anti communist campaign.

The Containment Policy is an effort to keep communism to spread across nations in Europe and in Asia. It was declared successful by the Truman gov’t as it keep communist ideas out of Greece and Turkey, however, it failed in unifying Korean peninsula into a democratic nation; hence the division into communist North and democratic South. Supporters of the policy backed Truman’s decision to mobilize military troops to nations threatened by communism thus the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan taken into effect, however, critics of the policy wanted to turn containment campaign to an effort to crush and defeat communism not through diplomacy but war. In addition, critics targeted how intervention had caused greater loss for the