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HISTORY 3040HISTORY 3040
CANADA AND THE WORLD
Dr. Curtis Cole
Trent University in Oshawa
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The Cold WarThe Cold WarFebruary 22, 2010
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Harry S. TrumanU.S. Vice-President, 1945
Sam RayburnSpeaker of the House,1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Harry S. TrumanU.S. Vice-President, 1945
President RooseveltDied April 12, 1945
Harry Truman Takes the Oath of OfficeApril 12, 1945
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Harry S. Truman, President1945-1953
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Atomic Bomb Droppedon Hiroshima: August, 1945
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta ConferenceFebruary, 1945
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STALIN
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression PactAugust 23, 1939
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FDRThought Stalin Would Negotiate
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Churchill didn’t trust Stalin
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Woodrow WilsonU.S. President, 1913-1921
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•“Containment”
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Senator J. William Fulbright (D) MissouriLike two big dogs chewing on a bone.
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U.S. Popular Opinion Poll:Do you trust the Russians?
Sept. 1945: 54%
Nov. 1945: 44%
Feb. 1946: 35%
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=•control over communications•suppression of political opposition•state-sanctioned terror•concentration camps
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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
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Poland
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We must stand up to the Russiansand not be easy with them.
Harry Truman1945
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Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov(right)
with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
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Stalin, Truman and Churchillat Potsdam, July 1945
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Atlee, Truman and Stalinat Potsdam, July 1945
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Atomic Bomb Successfully TestedLos Alamos, New Mexico - July 1945
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May, 1945:Truman orders end to Lend-Lease
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•Jan. 1945 Stalin asked U.S. for $6 billion loan•FDR stalled•Aug. 1945 - asked for $1 billion•Truman stalled
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Capitalism and Communism are on a collision course.
The capitalist world will soon be torn apart!
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The Declaration of World War ThreeU.S. Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas
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Churchill and Trumanat Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
March, 1946
Iron Curtain
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“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”
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The whole Soviet govern-mental machine, including themechanism of diplomacy,
moves inexorably along theprescribed path, like a persistenttoy automobile wound up and headed in a given direction, stopping only when it meets with some unanswerable force.
George F. KennanForeign Affairs, 1946
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The Truman Doctrine
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The Dardanelles
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The Truman DoctrineI believe it must be thepolicy of the United Statesto support free peoples whoare resisting subjugation byarmed minorities or byoutside pressures.
President Harry S. TrumanMarch, 1947
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The Truman Doctrine
a declaration of…an ideological or
religious war.
Bernard Barucha strategic
monstrosity
Walter Lippmann
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The patient is sinking whileits doctors deliberate
George Marshall,U.S. Secretary of State
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Containment The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine are two halves of the same walnut.
President Harry S. Truman
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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta ConferenceFebruary, 1945
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Germany Divided
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1948: Berlin Airlift 1949: NATO
1949: Revolution in China 1949: A Russian Bomb
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Reading:Bothwell, pp. 73-133.
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