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Domestically the "Best Years" ? but so begins The Cold War

Domestically the "Best Years" ? but so begins The Cold War. US History/Zisk. The Beginning …. Potsdam…Truman, Stalin, and Churchill Agreed on war trials Solidified 4 zones in Gmy. Harry stared down Joe. Tension mounts … Bomb had tested positively

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Domestically the "Best Years" ? but so begins The Cold War

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  1. Domestically the "Best Years" ? but so begins The Cold War US History/Zisk

  2. The Beginning … • Potsdam…Truman, Stalin, and Churchill • Agreed on war trials • Solidified 4 zones in Gmy. • Harry stared down Joe

  3. Tension mounts … • Bomb had tested positively • Red Army 5 million to US soldiers in uniform 1.5 mill • “Iron Curtain” Churchill • George Kennan’s “Sources of Soviet Conduct” 1947

  4. 1946- Stalin “The Russian system will triumph because a series of ‘cataclysmic disturbances’ would tear the capitalistic world apart” • 1946 – George Kennan “Russian hostility stemmed from the Kremlin’s neurotic view of world affairs which was rooted in the traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity.” • 1947 – Truman “If we falter in our leadership we may endanger the peace of the world.

  5. Truman Doctrine • 1947 Greece • “It must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” • $400 mill. Eco aid to Greece/Turkey

  6. Marshall Plan • Europe “…a breeding ground of pestilence and hate.” Churchill • Eco/physical destruction post-war • Communist takeover?!!!!! • “Hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos” = enemies • 16 nation Comm. For Eco. Coop.

  7. $22 bill in aid suggested • Offered to all but Stalin says no! • Czech’s really wanted to participate… defenestration • $13 bill authorized by Congress • Nobel Peace Prize to Marshall

  8. So what about Germany? • Key to W. Europe’s stability so…

  9. 3 Democratic zones become W.Gmy • 6/48-5/49 Berlin Airlift. • 1949 NATO (12) • 1949 USSR=Bomb • 1949 US=H-Bomb

  10. So what about Asia? • Japan important for stability =MacArthur • Korea divided at 38th • China … 1 of “Big 5” but Civil War … Nat.vs.Com. / Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Zedong • Formosa (Taiwan)

  11. 1948 Election • Dem. Truman • Rep. T. Dewey • Dixiecrats Strom Thurman • New Progressive H. Wallace

  12. Korea1950 NSC-68 UN police action16 nations 90% USMacArthur’s drive MacArthur fired

  13. Communist infiltration? • Never more than 100,000 commies • Paranoia cannot be “soft” on comm. • 1947 Loyalty Oath • 1948 Alger Hiss • 1950 Rosenbergs • Sen. Joe McCarthy’s “witch hunt’.

  14. We like Ike! • 1952 vs. Dem. Adlai Stevenson • Promised to go to Korea and end it! • “dynamic conservatism” Conservative with money but liberal with human beings.

  15. Cut spending, taxes and balance budget. • New Look = conventional military reduction • “brinkmanship” • Sputnik … NASA • National Defense Act

  16. Civil Rightshttp://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/audio/mp3/we_shall_overcome.mp3 • Truman starts w/desegregation of military. Merit promotions. • NAACP takes on Plessy • Thurgood Marshall

  17. Brown v. Board of Education • Warren Court • “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” • Little Rock

  18. Montgomery Bus Boycott • 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus • Martin Luther King, Jr. leads year long boycott • 1956 Supreme Court weighs in

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