Cold War at Home and Abroad - Foreign policy | AMH 2020, Study notes of World History

Download Cold War at Home and Abroad - Foreign policy | AMH 2020 and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! Cold War at Home & Abroad 1. US Foreign Policy Collective Security Containment Korea 3. Anti-Communism at home McCarthyism The US & WW2 Economic Prosperity & Growth Need to secure postwar markets World Bank & International Monetary Fund, 1944 Collective Security United Nations, 1945 Organization of American States, 1948 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1949 The Russian “Problem” Wartime allies to peacetime foes Yalta & Potsdam Conferences, 1945 Tacitly recognise “spheres of influence” Tensions: US fear of spread of Communism; democratic creeed need for open markets Soviet security interests ideology vs realpolitik Atomic Diplomacy US A-Bomb, 1945 US H-Bomb, 1952 “Arrogance of Power” Soviet A-Bomb, 1949 Soviet H-Bomb, 1953 Nuclear Arms Race Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Dr. Strangelove (dir: Stanley Kubrick, 1963) The Birth of “Containment” The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Greek civil war Containment: US pledges to confront the spread of communism by all necessary economic, diplomatic and military means… National Security Act, 1947 CIA & Nat. Sec. Council NSC-68, 1950 Containment extended: “foster seeds of destruction” in USSR Cold War in Asia The “fall” of China, 1949 Triumph of Mao Zedong’s communists Sino-Soviet Pact, 1950 increased fears of international communist conspiracy “Loss” of China = huge psychological blow to US intensifies search for communist infiltration in US increases pressure on Truman to adopt hardline approach to communist “expansion” (NSC-68) Also helps explain commitment of troops in Korean War… Korea, 1950-3 Domino Theory US supports Syngman Rhee in S. Korea. USSR & China support Kim Il Sung in N. Korea, who wants a unified Korea.