PPT-Cold War Politics in the Truman Years: 1945 - 1953

Dean Acheson foreign policy advisor Soviet Union posed a threat to US security Shaped policy to contain communism The Chill Sets in Soviet Sacrifices 20million citizens killed in WWII and vast amounts of agricultural amp industrial capacity. Chapter 15.1. Two Sides Face Off. Superpowers-US and USSR. NATO/Warsaw Pact. Iron Curtain-Winston Churchill describing the separation of Western and Eastern Europe. Berlin Wall. Eastern Europe resists USSR. 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.. In early 1947 Britain announced that it could no longer afford to resist the spread of communist influence in Greece and Turkey. Therefore Truman announced that the US would provide aid to anti-communist forces in these areas. This policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine. . During . the 1930s, unemployment and insecurity had pushed up the suicide rate and decreased the marriage rate.  The population growth was also declining as couples had economic troubles.  . In the initial postwar years, the economy struggled; prices elevated 33% from 1946-1947 after the wartime price controls were removed.  An epidemic of . ~ 1945 – 1952 ~. Postwar Economic Anxieties. Americans feared another depression would hit after the war.. After the war inflation shot up with the release of price controls while gross national product sank, and labor strikes swept the nation.. 1945-1963. Containment in a Divided World. The Cold War began at the close of WW2 in 1945 and ended in 1991.. The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1946. Yalta. Yalta Conference the “Big Three” met to reconcile . Although Germany and Berlin (the capital) had been divided between the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France after WWII, the divisions were not on complete opposite sides. . West Berlin (controlled by the US, Britain and France) was situated within East Germany (controlled by the Soviet Union). . Chapter 26 AMSCO. Themes. Containment. Communism. UN. Nuclear Proliferation. Introduction. WWII. Isolationist to military superpower, world affairs leader. Revitalized American Economy. Cold War. Democratic United States vs. Communist Soviet Union. 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. . Containment. Mutually Assured Destruction. Korean War, 1950-1953. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Afghanistan, 1979-1989. Mikhail Gorbachev. The Kitchen Debates, 1959. The First Phase, 1947-1953. George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and the policy of containment. 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. 11-3: Fear of Communism & the Wars it Leads To. Warm-Up. Describe America’s greatest fear leading into the 1950’s?. 1 . Paragraph:. What?. Why?. 1.) Warm-Up!!. The Korean War. During WW2-. Korea owned by Japan. 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. Nonetheless, the transition from wartime allies to enemies was not inevitable and was, in part, the result of the events and decisions of these years. Acting out of their perceived national interest, both the United States and the Soviet Union favoured the creation of two opposing blocs, competing for influence over a devastated European continent. By the end of 1947, the initial hopes that the Allies could continue to cooperate peacefully had been replaced by a vision of two political and social systems fundamentally at odds, and engaged in a struggle for global supremacy..