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Leaders and their impact on the Cold War - Coggle Diagram
Leaders and their impact on the Cold War
Harry Truman
Policies with increased tension
Truman Doctrine
1st step of America's increase in international politics
National Security Act 1947 -> CIA -> increased the aggressive approach the US militaries had in regards of Communism
Marshall Plan
Key in causing the breakdown between the US and USSR
Economic form of contaiment
Dollar imperialism
Revisionist:
Truman administration intentionally did this to make Communism less attractive by making West Berlin look like a showcase of a successful capitalist economy
Introduction of a new currency (DM) -> Berlin Blockade (June 1948 - May 1949)
NSC68
monolithic undefined period od tension and danger
increased military spending
encouraged military and economic aid to any country resisting Communism
Revisionist:
criticised US perception of Soviet intentions expressed in the document. They argue that the document reseted of exaggerated evidence and just an "excuse" for US expansionism
NATO
1949
Actions which decreased tension
Context
Highly distrusted Communism
Question the extent to which America should help Soviets in WW2
Extreme sign of distrust -> not telling Stalin about the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project)
Revisionist
: caused further distrust and inspired Stalin to act defensivley
1945 - 1953
Joseph Stalin
Policies with increased tension
Berlin Blockade
Enhanced the capabilities of America and Uk
The support and faith in Communism decreased both in West and East Germany
East Germans became increasingly jealous of the West
Orthodox:
Berlin blockade was an aggressive step to try to squeeze the Western Allies out of Berlin
Revisionist:
American actions scared Stalin into defensive actions
Nazi-Soviet Non Agression Pact 1939
Very beneficial for Russia and it's industry
Worsened the fear and anti-Communist feeling in the West
Czechoslovakia
Most notorious staellite state in East Europe
Jan Masaryk "suicide"
Communists removed all politicans from the post-war alliance
Warsaw Pact
1955
Equivalent of NATO but for Communist satellite states
Cominform and Comecon
Relations between America and Soviets continued to deteriorate
Actions which decreased tension
Context:
1924 - 1953
Natural heir of Communism
Collectivisation -> West distrustful
Show trials
, class warfare (kulaks), elimination of political opponents ->
rise in anti-Communism in the West
Highly paranoid
Orthodox:
Agressive, expansionist power who was trying to take over Easter and Central Europe and spread Communism wherever he could
Revisionist:
Reactionary and motivated by fear of American imperialism and the expansion of hostile capital regimes