The US and the World since 1945
Introduction
isolationism: the belief that a country should not be involved with other countries: a policy of marking agreements or working with others countries
Interventionism: a government policy or practice of doing things to directly influence the political affairs of another country
military factors: nuclear power (atomic bomb on Japan on 6 and 9 August 1945)
economic factors: the US produce half of world industrial production and have two-third of world gold stock
The Bretton Woods Conference on July 1944
political factors: Truman signed the United Nations in San Franscisco in June 1945
cultural factors: the way of american way of life (Hollywood and telivision)
soft-power: a concept developed by Joseph Nye in the 1990's to describe the abitily to attract
hard-power: a concept to describe a coercive approach to international relations, especially one that involved the use of military power
The Origins of the Cold War (1947-1953)
the contaimnent doctrine
Fulton Missouri dilivered in March 1946, Churchill warned the world about the iron curtain
President Truman in March 1947 to prevent the spread of communism
the containment doctrine or Truman doctrine (democracy, freedom, capitalism)
beginning of the cold war
First Steps
The Marshall Plan was implemented from 1947 to 1952
Western countries received some 13 billion dollars
The Marshall Plan used to purshase US goods
Eastern European countries had to refuse to join the Molotov Plan (COMECON)
creation of the millitary alliance named North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949
The Origins of the Cold War (1947-1953)
The Berlin Blockade
1945: the seperation of germany in four zones of occupation
June 1948: Britain, France and America united their zones, introduction of a new currency, the new deutschmark
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