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"
- Telegram sent the American govt in 1946
- 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
- Truman Doctrine Launched
- Post WW2 brit £3000m in debt
- Iron curtain Speech
- What is it?
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