Cold War Historiography 1

Historography

The method used to study, verify, and understand past events in order to create history.

Sources

The most important ingredient of historiography which document are evaluated to reach a defensible conclusion

History

Recorder knowledge that aims to interpret past events

Frame of Reference (point of view)

A historian upbringing experiences and social statistics will ineburly influence there view

Interpretation

A crucial ingredient of how history in which historian argues about how an why the even took place

Cold War Historiography

Following world war 2, historian debated on how and why the USA and Soviet Union went from ally to super power and enemy

Orthodox Historians (“the traditionalists”) 1945-1950’s

Historians that blame the Soviet Union for unicating the enamasity between the US and the Soviet Union

Thomas Bailey, George Kennan and Herbert Feis

The most well known orthodox historian that blame the Soviet Union that begin the war

Revisionist (1960’s)

Due to the desastirist Vietnam war some historian rebuilt the tradition its and blamed America for its economic and political manipulation

William Appleman Williams, Gar Alperavitz, and D.F Fleming

The most popular American revisionist who blame the US

Post Revisionist (1970’s- 80’s)

Moderit historian who analyze both orthodox and revisionists and believed it was both of their fault or heighten their fault

John Lewis Gaddis, Ernest May, Melvyn Leffler and Mare Trachtori

The most famous post revisionists

Post-Post Revisionists (New Cold War Historians) 1989-1990’s

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian historian is free to interpret the account of Cold War causing to then blame Stalin

Historical Eclecticism

The later historian was able to extract different historical expectives giving them other advantage

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

A German philosopher most famous in modern history who created essays concerning reason, judgement and ethics

“Categorical Imperative” (1785) and “Metaphysics of Moral” (1797)

Kants essays believed that society must uphold displant but war must embrace society over all things

American Neutrality Acts (1935)

Proisolatist laws banning the U.S from selling arms or lending money to nations at war

Good Neighbor Policy

Hover and F.D.R push to improve Latin American relationship by no interviewing with their (war)

Benito Mussolini (R. 1922-1945)

The Italian leader took complete control of the nation and vowed to make a powerful force

Facism

A totalicterian super nationalist party believing in ethnic superiority and elimination of opposition

N.A.Z.I.S (Nationalist Socialist Workers Progressive Party)

German faciz who gain political power and under Adolfo Hitler

“Mein Kampf” (1925)

Hitler’s book emphasizes of the idea of racial killing and plans to take over their world

1) German are the super race

2) Italian and France are acceptable

3) Slabs (Russian, Eastern Europeans) should be under slave (sub human)

4) non.white

5) Jews

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A German Jew scientist who escape the naiz threat by migrating to the US

“E-mc²”

A fear of Hitler scientist Einstein erg FDR developed a bomb with this equation

Joseph Stalin (R: 1922-1953)

Soviet Union brutal dictator forcing Russian to prepare in fear of Hitler might attack them

Nazi-Soviet Pact (Moscow)

A vow of non aggression between nations Germany and soviet

Japan’s Invasion of Manchuria’s & China (1931 & 1937)

Japan take over manchuria’s lands for oil and coal invades china and League of Nations did nothing

“Rape of NianJiang”

The captial of china republic is massacred an unpresented level

Munich Pact (1938)

After Hitler invaded chocoslaviaca he promise to to invade another nation

“Peace in our Time” British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlan

A decleration to the world which became the most miss calculated quote of history

“Rape of Poland” (Sept 3, 1939)

Hitler and Stalin made a deal to divide Poland and not to interfere with each other’s nation

World War II (1939-1941)

A European and Asian conflict that evolved into a international catastrophic war