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HISTORY 3040 CANADA AND THE WORLD. The Origins of The Cold War. Dr. Curtis Cole Trent University in Oshawa. February 22, 2010. The Origins of the Cold War. The Origins of the Cold War. Harry S. Truman U.S. Vice-President, 1945. Sam Rayburn Speaker of the House, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Curtis Cole
Trent University in Oshawa
The Origins The Origins ofof
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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