Blog from Last Thursday
SORRY this is late i got my days mixed up and just found this in my book it's from last thursday maybe the thursday before:
COLD WAR
-Potsdam Conference:
Truman learns of the successful testing of the atomic bomb and casually lets Stalin know.
Conference issues a demand for Japan to surrender or be destroyed
-Baruch Plan
Truman has Bernard Baruch propose inernational control of nuclear weapons to the United Nations
Plan calls for: Full disclosure by all members of nuclear research and materials, creations of international authority to ensure concurrence, destructions of all US nuclear weapons as a last step.
Soviets do not agree and said US destroy all nuclear weapons, US refused since the Soviets also had a program
-Containment
Friction builds
Truman abruptly suspended lend-lease to Soviet Union in Sept. 1945 to pressure them into holding elections in Poland
US also linked extension of US rec. loans to its goal of rolling back Soviet Union power in East Europe This didn't work and tightened grip
Sphere of defensive influence called it communist expansion in Eastern Europe
March 1947 Truman announced Truman Doctrine in response to spread of communism:
-asked congress to provide aid to Greece and Turkey
-declared the fate of "free peoples" everywhere hung in the balance
-the US should aid countries who are resisting anti-govt acttion otherwise US security would be endangered
-Congress passed his request for 400 million$ in Greece and Turkey (military aid mostly)
US security police became known as containment
Came from a foreign affairs journal under "Mr. X" by a dept official named George Kennan (argued Soviets were naturally expansionist but if firmly confronted they will back down)
Containment became a global anticommunist policy which the US followed until the fall of the Soviet Union in 191
Linked all leftist insurgencies to a totalifarian movement controlled from Moscow that threatened the US
Nine days after proclaiming the Truman Doctrine the president issued an executive order 9835 which called for: a system of loyalty boarders authorized to determine if reasonable grounds
It is known that the CPUSA was getting money from the me Soviet Union and they were spying
Once the messages had been intercepted (Venona Files) show that the SU had been successful from the US govt agencies (Office of War Info and Office if Strategic Services)
Moscow was obtaining even info on the Us atomic weapons program (Few translators and many interceted messsages few people knew about)
Dakota Kuca
COLD WAR
-Potsdam Conference:
Truman learns of the successful testing of the atomic bomb and casually lets Stalin know.
Conference issues a demand for Japan to surrender or be destroyed
-Baruch Plan
Truman has Bernard Baruch propose inernational control of nuclear weapons to the United Nations
Plan calls for: Full disclosure by all members of nuclear research and materials, creations of international authority to ensure concurrence, destructions of all US nuclear weapons as a last step.
Soviets do not agree and said US destroy all nuclear weapons, US refused since the Soviets also had a program
-Containment
Friction builds
Truman abruptly suspended lend-lease to Soviet Union in Sept. 1945 to pressure them into holding elections in Poland
US also linked extension of US rec. loans to its goal of rolling back Soviet Union power in East Europe This didn't work and tightened grip
Sphere of defensive influence called it communist expansion in Eastern Europe
March 1947 Truman announced Truman Doctrine in response to spread of communism:
-asked congress to provide aid to Greece and Turkey
-declared the fate of "free peoples" everywhere hung in the balance
-the US should aid countries who are resisting anti-govt acttion otherwise US security would be endangered
-Congress passed his request for 400 million$ in Greece and Turkey (military aid mostly)
US security police became known as containment
Came from a foreign affairs journal under "Mr. X" by a dept official named George Kennan (argued Soviets were naturally expansionist but if firmly confronted they will back down)
Containment became a global anticommunist policy which the US followed until the fall of the Soviet Union in 191
Linked all leftist insurgencies to a totalifarian movement controlled from Moscow that threatened the US
Nine days after proclaiming the Truman Doctrine the president issued an executive order 9835 which called for: a system of loyalty boarders authorized to determine if reasonable grounds
It is known that the CPUSA was getting money from the me Soviet Union and they were spying
Once the messages had been intercepted (Venona Files) show that the SU had been successful from the US govt agencies (Office of War Info and Office if Strategic Services)
Moscow was obtaining even info on the Us atomic weapons program (Few translators and many interceted messsages few people knew about)
Dakota Kuca
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