Why were there growing tensions after Potsdam?
- Created by: bethfrench99
- Created on: 01-02-16 20:23
View mindmap
- Why were there growing tensions after Potsdam?
- Kennan's 'Long Telegram'
- Kennan wanted a hard line stance against the USSR. Exaggeration was a possibility
- Reflected on previous events and concluded that a USA-USSR compromise or alliance would be impossible to maintain
- Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
- Looked at how the USSR was portraying the USA and UK
- Felt the USA should be prepared to threaten and use military force, and that it allies' loyalties should be ensured. Should also take a protective role in Europe
- Followed by the 'X' Article which called for systemati containment of communist expansion because of the USSR's aggressive foreign policy
- Seen as a peaceful approach to containment and had an appealing 'this is necessary' tone
- Resulted in Truman seeing the USSR as a threat to freedom and the USA's national security
- Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
- Stated that there was a division of Europe into 2 'camps'
- Accused Stalin of having an oppressive regime
- Called for Western unity against the 'threat' of Communism
- Delivered to university students as a means to test the reaction to the change in propaganda
- The Truman Doctrine
- February 1947 - the 'official' start to the Cold War
- A result of the Greek Civil War, where communists were attempting to gain control. Stalin stuck to the Percentages Agreement and didn't help Greek communists
- Meant to convince Congress that foreign policy should be transferred from isolation to intervention
- Controversial because US taxpayers would fund the aid given to Greek capitalists
- Argued that there were two camps
- Stated that there was a division of Europe into 2 'camps'
- Demonised communism
- Called for Western unity against the 'threat' of Communism
- Seen as a peaceful approach to containment and had an appealing 'this is necessary' tone
- Soviet control of E. Europe 1945-48
- Stalin ignored the Declaration on Liberated Europe
- Used salami tactics; manipulation and intimidation; popularity or a mixture
- Used gradualism in most cases to gain significant influence which led to domination.
- The Czechoslovakian Crisis of 1948 enabled the passing of the Marshall Plan
- Kennan's 'Long Telegram'
Comments
No comments have yet been made