The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1941-1950

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The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1941-1950
  1. Key Content
    1. Tensions in the wartime alliance against the Axis powers
      1. The warime allinace happened when both the US and USSR
        1. The US and the USSR emerged as Superpowers
          1. The countries had very different views and aims
            1. The US was a supreme capitalist country
              1. The US was a supreme capitalist country
                1. worry led to fear; fear caused the breakdown of the wartime alliance
                  1. hostility and mutual antipathy
                2. Peacemaking at the end of World War II
                  1. Yalta
                    1. Stalin
                      1. Anthony Eden
                        1. Roosevelt
                        2. Potsdam Conference
                          1. Stalin
                            1. Truman
                          2. Incrreasing tensions in a divided Europe
                            1. The truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
                              1. Truman believed that the US would have to be much more active in world affairs if it was going to halt the spread of communism
                                1. Truman Doctrine
                                  1. a plan for containing communism and dictatorships by helping countries like Greece and Turkey get back on their economic feet
                                  2. Marshall Plan
                                    1. an expanded version of the Truman Doctrine and a part of the containment policy. The US ended up giving $12 billion to help Europe rebuild after WW2. We did this to stop the spread of Communism in western Europe.
                                  3. The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
                                    1. Berlin Airlift
                                      1. Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
                                      2. Berlin Blockade
                                        1. 1948: Soviet response to US, Britain, and France uniting their parts of Germany into West Germany. West allies got around it with the Berlin Air Lift.
                                    2. Key Approaches
                                      1. How far were inherent tensions between East and West bound to resurface in 1945?
                                        1. How important were the personalities of the leaders of the Great Powers in shaping the Cold War?
                                          1. How far were the ideology, security and economics the factors which created Cold War tensions?
                                            1. The Traditional approach
                                              1. Appeared- a decade after the end of the Seocnd World War
                                                1. Places the responsibility for the Cold War on the Soviet Union and its expanision into Eastern Europe
                                                2. The Revisionist approach
                                                  1. Placed more responsibility for the breakdown of postwar peace on the United States
                                                    1. efforts to isolate and confront the Soviet Union well before the end of WW2
                                                    2. Argued that American policymakers sharded an overarching concern with maintaining the market system and democracy
                                                      1. Revisionists believed that to obtain that objective the US wanted an Open Door Policy abroad, aimed at increasing access to foreign markets for US business and agriculture
                                                    3. Post-revisionist approaches
                                                      1. Not so much the responsibilty of either side but rather the result of predictable tensions between two world powers that had been suspicious of one another for nearly a century
                                                      2. How have the perspectives on the Cold War of Russian historians differed from those in the West?
                                                        1. Reinterpretations of the Cold War in the light of new archival sources
                                                          1. The emergence of the 'New Cold War history
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