Chapter 27

**Today in class we received our quizzes back on chapters 25 & 26. We also began Chapter 27!

The Cold War

Potsdam Conference- Truman fears about successful atomic bomb testing.

Baruch Plan- Bernard Baruch proposed international control of nuclear weapons on the United Nations.

Baruch Plan:

1. Full disclosure by all UN members of nuclear research and materials.
2. Creation of international authority to ensure concurrence.
3. Destruction of all U.S. atomic weapons once these steps were complete.

*Soviets didnt by it, they wnated all the U.S. atomic weapons destroyed.

Containment:

Truman abruptly suspended the assistance of the Soviet Union in September 1945. Partly to pressure the Soviets into holding elections in Poland.

Soviet sphere of influence which Stalin called Defensive and which the U.S. called communist expansion emerged in eatern Europe.

Truman Doctrine:

asked congress to provide aid the Greece and Turkey.

Declares that the fate of the people. U.S. should and countries who are resiting armed miniorities.

Congress passed Trumans request for 400 million in assitance to Greece and Turkey.

U.S. National Security policy became known as containment.

Term came from Article published in foriegn affairs magazine(Mr. X or George Kennan)

Salv Soviets were natural expansionist.

Foriegn policy 1990s ntil the Salvits soviets collapsed.

Nine days after proclaiming the Truman Doctrine, the president issued executive order which called for a system of loyality.

Messages were between Moscow and the U.S. known as the "Venona files," which means that the Soviet Union was spying on the United States.

Loyalty program came at a time when a very few peoples in our government knew that an extent of Soviet spy activity.

Joseph McCarthy was alleging that rumors of communist party members.

National Security Act of 1947; the old navy and war departments into the department of defense.

Established the National security council.