The USA's Globalism 1945-1950
A mindmap showing different aspects of the USA's Globalism between 1945 and 1950 including the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and Kennan's 'Long' Telegram.
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- Created on: 17-05-13 20:38
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- The USA's Globalism 1945-1950
- Kennan's Long Telegram February 1946
- Long telegram extracts
- Aimed 'to undermine general political... potential of western powers'
- 'Soviet... puppet political machines will be undergoing preparation to take over power in colonial areas...'
- 'Set western powers against each other'
- 'desirable and necessary for our traditional way of life to be destroyed'
- Sent from George Kennan, a US official in Moscow, to Washington
- In a response to Stalin's attempt to establish Soviet military bases in Turkey
- Suggested Soviet motives
- Argued that USA must be prepared to threaten the use of force to ensure unity of its allies
- Must take a proactive role
- Kennan said that isolationism wouldn't protect American interests
- Long telegram extracts
- The Marshall Plan June 1947
- Response to Clayton's worrying assessment of the European economy
- Provided $13.5 billion to 16 European countries over 5 years
- Some had to be spent on US goods
- Formally known as the Economic Recovery Plan
- Aimed to promote European unity
- Stable Euro bloc reinforces containment concept
- Many argue that the plan helped set up the European Coal and Steel Community and consequently the EEC in 1957
- Seen by the Soviets as US imperalism
- Feared it would spread to Eastern Europe and undermine their authority and influence
- Stalin ordered any Czechoslovakia and any other eastern states that were interested in Marshall Aid to remove that interest
- Feared it would spread to Eastern Europe and undermine their authority and influence
- Soviets set up Cominform in response
- The Truman Doctrine
- Support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities
- Orthodox approach: designed to promote democracy and freedom
- Revisionist approach: Truman demonising the USSR to the American public- presenting the Soviets as an enemy
- By starting the Cold War the US would be justified as a defender of freedom in the world
- First step in containment policy
- Kennan's Long Telegram February 1946
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