PPT-Korea, the Truman Doctrine and the Policy of Containment

Your Name Date Period My Position Containment was a good idea We saved South Korea from communists Harry Truman was US President his Truman Doctrine prevented the spread of communism Invasion . Do Nagasaki and Hiroshima constitute a crime against humanity?. Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits the unlawful killing of civilians during wartime.. Between 150,000-240,000 civilians died as a result of both bombs, another 2,000 died later in Hiroshima from cancers that could be directly traced to the radiation emitted by the blast.. L/O – To identify how and why the relationship between the USA and USSR intensified in the years 1947-48. Introduction. By the end of 1946, the Grand Alliance had . broken down. . Both sides now viewed each other with . THE COLD WAR BEGINS. 22.1 – ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. Yalta Conference . – US, GB, and USSR met at Yalta in 1945 (Feb.) to discuss . the postwar world. Tensions increase between . Soviet Union and Allies. DH . Chp. 2. Two Koreas. Truman’s Sec. of State Dean Acheson feels that China and Soviet’s old conflicts can be played against each other . . Decides to allow Mao to basically ‘win’ and we will extend diplomatic relations to communist China and allow them to take seat on UN Security Council. Harry S Truman. 33. rd. President of the United States. . Birth and Childhood. Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Born to John and Martha Truman. Grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Grandview. Dean Acheson: foreign policy advisor . Soviet Union posed a threat to U.S. security. Shaped policy to contain communism. The Chill Sets in…. Soviet Sacrifices: +20million citizens killed in WWII and vast amounts of agricultural & industrial capacity. L/O – To identify how and why the relationship between the USA and USSR intensified in the years 1947-48. Introduction. By the end of 1946, the Grand Alliance had . broken down. . Both sides now viewed each other with . Quotation from reading: . Thus does the movie [The Truman Show] offer us a metaphor for our own situation. The fake landscape Truman lives in is our own media landscape in which news, politics, advertising and public affairs are increasingly made up of theatrical illusions. Like our media landscape, it is convincing in its realism, with lifelike simulations and story lines, from the high-tech facsimile of a sun that benevolently beams down on Truman to the mock sincerity of the actor he mistakenly believes is his best friend. It is also rewarding and masquerades as something benevolent. And it is seamless -- there are almost no flaws that give away the illusion -- at least until things start to go wrong.. Truman and the atomic bomb . FDR dies April 12, 1945. Truman becomes President . Atomic Bomb dropped August 6. ,. 1945. Truman’s “Get Tough” Style. Truman had a personality ill suited for diplomacy. . ORIGINS. George Kennan. C. ommunism. Containment. C. ontainment . “support free peoples” --Harry Truman. Truman . Doctrine. Money countries . Greece, Turkey. D.O.D.. NSC. CIA. NATIONAL SECURITY ACT (1947). 1945 - 1952. Truman as President . April 12, 1945. NOT FDR. No $$, no college, failed business. ‘34- Senator. Decisive, blunt, loyal, confident, self-assured. What’s the plan?. New Deal .  - New Dealers . Enduring legacies of 1945. June 26, 1945 Truman speaks at the closing session of the UN Conference--San Francisco. July 2, 1945 Address before the Senate urging ratification July 2, 1945. July 28, 1945 Senate approves U.N. charter and it becomes effective on October 24, 1945. Postwar America. Strong economy. By 1950s, America had the highest standard of living. GI-Bill Opened door to veterans to attend college. Baby Boom: explosion of marriage/birth. By 1960 1/3 of married women worked outside of home. Mr. Krueger and Class. Truman and the Cold War. Conflict between the U.S and the Soviet Union began gradually. For years they dealt with:. Division in Europe. Postwar Economic Aid. Atomic Bomb. American diplomats sought peace with a suspicious Soviet Union.