Truman at the helm/Foundations of the Cold War.

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Truman at the helm/Foundations of the Cold War.
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Yalta Feb 1945
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Results of Yalta

• FDR promises to withdraw all U.S. troops from
  Europe in 2 years.
• Declaration on Liberated Europe promises "free
  and unfettered elections", but secret agreement
  on Curzon boundary
• Stalin to enter Asia war, and gets S. Sakhalin,
  Kuriles, control of ports and railroads in
  Manchuria.
• China?

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Potsdam August 1945
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Results of Potsdam

• Nazi leaders to be tried as war criminals at
  Nuremburg.
• Korea to be divided.
• Demands unconditional surrender of Japan.

• Stalin told on July 24 of A-bomb test.
• Germany to be administered as single economic
  unit by Allies, but Stalin seals all land access
  to East Germany

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Change of heart? 1946

• Feb. 9 - Stalin hostile speech - communism
  capitalism were incompatible.
• Feb. 10 - Churchill visit to Truman - argues
  hard-line response, need to create unified
  Anglo-American opposition to Stalin

• Mar. 5 - Churchill's speech at Fulton, Missouri -
  an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe
• Bikini Atoll and others

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Truman Doctrine

• Brit. Feb. 12 announced Greece pullout
• "I believe that it must be the policy of the
  United States to support free peoples who are
  resisting attempted subjugation by armed
  minorities or by outside pressures."
• "national security" not defense, unilateral not
  UN, domino theory not regionalism
• signed May 22 with Vandenberg amendment that
  affirmed U.S. support for United Nations

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Marshall Plan
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Economic bullets
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Reds under the bed.

• HUAC.
• Richard Nixon.
• Joseph McCarthy.
• Feb 1948 Czech crisis.
• Loyalty oaths.
• Alger Hiss.
• Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

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Spy v. spy
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Berlin Airlift

• June 1948.
• Lasted for 11 months.
• Two million lbs. of supplies.

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1949- Not a good year

• NATO created.
• USSR detonates their first atomic bomb.
• Mao Zedong defeats Chiang Kaishek.