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Ch.27 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Truman's presidency
        
        Believed Stalin was untrustworthy
        
        "Get Tough" Policy
        
        Truman Doctrine
        
        "firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansion"
        
        "Fair Deal"
        
        very similar to the New Deal, health care, education, health insurance, minimum wage
        
        weakened by Republicans and conservatives, was only combated by vetoes but still powerful
        
        vetoed against Taft-Harley Act (made illegal closed-shops), conservatives hurt wokers and unions and Truman was unable to stop it
    - - The U.S decided to contain Soviet threats and expansion
    - - Rebuilding Europe
      - administered by Economic Cooperation Administartion
    - - Truman won by attacking the Republican Party as the "do-nothing, good-for-nothing" republican Congress was responsible for hurting workers and the economy.
      - Truman was the first to campaign in Harlem
  - - - wanted to install pro-communist government rather than the exiled one
  - - - Rest of the world
    - - U.S.
      - Britain
      - France
      - China
      - Soviet Union
      - Given Veto Power
  - - - revived Selective Service System with new military draft
      - Atomic Energy Commision
        
        oversaw all nulear research and creation of hydrogen bombs
      - National Security Act of 1947
        
        creation of Department of Defense, National Security Council, and CIA
        
        gave the president expanded powers to pursue international goals
    - - NATO was an alliance between the U.S and countries of western Europe, an attack on one was an attack on all
      - In response to NATO the Soviet Union and it's allies in Eastern Europe to create a communist alliance
    - - change in U.S foreign policy = NSC-68
        
        The National Security Council report argued that the United States should no loger rely on other countries to take initiative against communism and must instead establish itself as a active leader of the noncommunist world
  - - - U.S. wanted a reunited Germany
      - Soviet union wanted dismemberment
      - Ended up being split between the Allies for a few years until it was reunited
  - - - little to no popular support
      - friendly towards U.S.
    - - U.S refused to go to war in order to stop communists
    - - With China lost, U.S looked towards a revived Japan to be a western power in Asia
- - - - argued that containment was to weak, that a stronger response was needed
        
        wanted "rollback", pushing back Russian expansion
        
        Eisenhower was against it, feared a war would follow
      - John Birch Society
        
        led by Robert Welch
        
        wrote the "Blue Book of the John Birch Society"
        
        arguing that the government was full of treasonous communist americans undermining the country, and that the UN was evil
    - - believed conflict with Russia was unnecesary