Developing Tensions CONTAINMENT

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  • Containment
    • What is it?
      • Objective to prevent spread on communism
      • Measures adopted to counter communism
        • The marshall Plan
        • The truman doctrine
        • The creation of a New West German state
        • NATO
        • The reconstruction of Japan
    • Why was it adopted?
      • Iron curtain Speech
        • 1946
        • Division east and west referred to
        • Churchill called for an alliance between USA and Britain
        • Fulton, Miissouri
      • Kennan's long Telegram
        • Telegram sent the American govt in 1946
          • Described the US as seeking global expansion
        • Kennan; US diplomat based in Moscow since 1933
        • Called the soviet regime 'cruel, repressive and paranoid out of hostility
        • 1947 MR X article
          • "Communism should be met with firm and vigilant containment"
      • Greek and British civil war
        • Post WW2 brit £3000m in debt
          • Truman Doctrine Launched
            • MARCH 12 1947
            • Americans concerned both countries would fall to Communism
          • political unrest India Palestine, and Egypt
          • Brit supported Greece and turkey but could no longer afford to do so
            • Americans concerned both countries would fall to Communism

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