Containment and a Divided Global Order
Post War Power Vacuum
England and France are weak
USSR and US are strong
Yalta - USSR promises to help fight Japan and hold fair elections in E. Europe
UN - Replaces League of Nations, UN Security Council (US, USSR, England, France, China)
Potsdam - Truman replaces FDR, sets up communist rule of E. Europe
Churchill says an iron curtain has fallen in Europe
Germany → East and West
Containment - counter USSR by containing the spread of communism
George Kennan writes the Long Telegram, described the containment strategy
US over England
England’s power and control decreases
Specifically in Asia (ie. India)
Truman Doctrine - US will fight communism using military and economic aid
Marshall Plan - US is scared of another Great Depression and rise of totalitarianism, so they send $13 billion to Europe
Makes the US look good and gives them trading partners
Berlin Blockade - US flies supplies to West Berlin because Stalin stopped all travel to West Berlin
Symbol of resistance of communism
NATO is backed by the US
Warsaw Pact is backed by USSR
Yugoslavia is communist, but not part of the USSR block
USSR Nukes
First atomic bomb detonated in September of 1949
Truman establishes the National Security Council (NSC)
NSC-68 was released by the National Security Council and advocated for militarization
US builds hydrogen bomb
US makes a constitution in Japan
Still has the emperor
US military will protect Japan
Civil War in China
Mao (communist) vs Jiang Jieshi (capitalist)
Mao wins, China is a communist nation
China allies with the USSR for protection from the US
Korean War (aka the Forgotten War)
North Korea invades South Korea
General MacArthur lead the UN and S. Korea to invade N. Korea
China is drawn into the war
Border ends up near the 38th parallel
Munich Analogy
Resist the USSR as much as possible because of appeasement of the Nazis in 1938
Post War Power Vacuum
England and France are weak
USSR and US are strong
Yalta - USSR promises to help fight Japan and hold fair elections in E. Europe
UN - Replaces League of Nations, UN Security Council (US, USSR, England, France, China)
Potsdam - Truman replaces FDR, sets up communist rule of E. Europe
Churchill says an iron curtain has fallen in Europe
Germany → East and West
Containment - counter USSR by containing the spread of communism
George Kennan writes the Long Telegram, described the containment strategy
US over England
England’s power and control decreases
Specifically in Asia (ie. India)
Truman Doctrine - US will fight communism using military and economic aid
Marshall Plan - US is scared of another Great Depression and rise of totalitarianism, so they send $13 billion to Europe
Makes the US look good and gives them trading partners
Berlin Blockade - US flies supplies to West Berlin because Stalin stopped all travel to West Berlin
Symbol of resistance of communism
NATO is backed by the US
Warsaw Pact is backed by USSR
Yugoslavia is communist, but not part of the USSR block
USSR Nukes
First atomic bomb detonated in September of 1949
Truman establishes the National Security Council (NSC)
NSC-68 was released by the National Security Council and advocated for militarization
US builds hydrogen bomb
US makes a constitution in Japan
Still has the emperor
US military will protect Japan
Civil War in China
Mao (communist) vs Jiang Jieshi (capitalist)
Mao wins, China is a communist nation
China allies with the USSR for protection from the US
Korean War (aka the Forgotten War)
North Korea invades South Korea
General MacArthur lead the UN and S. Korea to invade N. Korea
China is drawn into the war
Border ends up near the 38th parallel
Munich Analogy
Resist the USSR as much as possible because of appeasement of the Nazis in 1938
