us misjudgements
- Created by: Jay Wynter
- Created on: 30-05-13 11:35
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- USA misjudgements and misperceptions
- US thought poorer countries more likely to turn to communism
- = marshall plan established
- showed USSRs econonomic weakness
- = marshall plan established
- stalin's claims on the dardanelles reflected sov trade
- US saw it as expansion
- US ignored evidence which showed sov goals were defensive rather than global communism
- (china seen more as a rival than ally)
- Truman doctrine
- based on the false assumption that USSR was helping Greek communists in the civil war
- US gov mistakenly assumed that Stalin had deliberately engineered the Korean war
- US thought poorer countries more likely to turn to communism
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