HISTORY 3040 CANADA AND THE WORLD

1. HISTORY 3040 CANADA AND THE WORLD The Origins of The Cold War Dr. Curtis Cole Trent University in Oshawa February 22, 2010

2. The Origins of the Cold War

3. The Origins of the Cold War Harry S. Truman U.S. Vice-President, 1945 Sam Rayburn Speaker of the House, 1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61

4. President Roosevelt Died April 12, 1945 The Origins of the Cold War Harry S. Truman U.S. Vice-President, 1945 Eleanor Roosevelt

5. The Origins of the Cold War Harry Truman Takes the Oath of Office April 12, 1945

6. The Origins of the Cold War Harry S. Truman, President 1945-1953

7. Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima: August, 1945

8. The Origins of the Cold War Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta Conference February, 1945

9. The Origins of the Cold War STALIN

10. The Origins of the Cold War Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact August 23, 1939

11. The Origins of the Cold War FDR Thought Stalin Would Negotiate

12. The Origins of the Cold War Churchill didn’t trust Stalin

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15. The Origins of the Cold War Woodrow Wilson U.S. President, 1913-1921

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18. The Origins of the Cold War • “Containment”

19. The Origins of the Cold War Senator J. William Fulbright (D) Missouri Like two big dogs chewing on a bone.

20. The Origins of the Cold War U.S. Popular Opinion Poll: Do you trust the Russians? Sept. 1945: 54% Nov. 1945: 44% Feb. 1946: 35%

21. The Origins of the Cold War = • control over communications • suppression of political opposition • state-sanctioned terror • concentration camps

22. The Origins of the Cold War There isn’t any difference between the totalitarian Russian government and the Hitler government. They are all alike… They are all police governments. Harry Truman 1950

23. The Origins of the Cold War Poland

24. The Origins of the Cold War We must stand up to the Russians and not be easy with them. Harry Truman 1945

25. The Origins of the Cold War Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov(right) with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles

26. The Origins of the Cold War Stalin, Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, July 1945

27. The Origins of the Cold War Atlee, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, July 1945

28. The Origins of the Cold War Atomic Bomb Successfully Tested Los Alamos, New Mexico - July 1945

29. The Origins of the Cold War May, 1945: Truman orders end to Lend-Lease

30. The Origins of the Cold War • Jan. 1945 Stalin asked U.S. • for $6 billion loan • FDR stalled • Aug. 1945 - asked for $1 billion • Truman stalled

31. The Origins of the Cold War Capitalism and Communism are on a collision course. The capitalist world will soon be torn apart!

32. The Origins of the Cold War The Declaration of World War Three U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

33. The Origins of the Cold War Churchill and Truman at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri March, 1946 Iron Curtain

34. “Containment” George F. Kennan U.S. Chargé d’affaires, Moscow “the Kremlin’s neurotic view of world affairs” “traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity” The Origins of the Cold War

35. The whole Soviet govern- mental machine, including the mechanism of diplomacy, moves inexorably along the prescribed path, like a persistent toy automobile wound up and headed in a given direction, stopping only when it meets with some unanswerable force. The Origins of the Cold War George F. Kennan Foreign Affairs, 1946

36. The Truman Doctrine The Origins of the Cold War

37. The Origins of the Cold War The Dardanelles

38. The Truman Doctrine The Origins of the Cold War I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. President Harry S. Truman March, 1947

39. The Truman Doctrine Bernard Baruch Walter Lippmann a declaration of …an ideological or religious war. a strategic monstrosity The Origins of the Cold War

40. The Origins of the Cold War The patient is sinking while its doctors deliberate George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State

41. Containment The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine are two halves of the same walnut. The Origins of the Cold War President Harry S. Truman

42. The Origins of the Cold War Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta Conference February, 1945

43. The Origins of the Cold War Germany Divided

44. 1949: NATO 1948: Berlin Airlift 1949: Revolution in China 1949: A Russian Bomb The Origins of the Cold War

45. HISTORY 3040 CANADA AND THE WORLD NEXT CLASS The Cold War Part II Reading: Bothwell, pp. 73-133.