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Origins of the Cold War
We Didn't Start The Fire
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Cold War Historiography
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Orthodox School
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Revisionists
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Blamed Soviets
US the aggressor
Realist
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Less moralistic; pragmatic politics
Interpreting Hiroshima
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Saving Lives
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Unnecessary
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Japanese stronger and more resistant than
thought
Peace feelers
Soviet entry into war
Message to Soviets
Decision Making Models
Differing World Visions
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United States
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Soviets shaped by
invasions
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Battle of
Stalingrad
Sees stable and secure
world by spreading
American ideas and
values
Shaped by depression
Must be internationally
active
World Bank and IMF
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WWII losses
Seek secure border
Demand buffer zone
WWII and Cold War
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Pre-War Relations
Second Front
Yalta Conference (Feb
1945)
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US needs Russian help
in Japan
Eastern Europe’s fate left
unclear
Truman and the Bomb
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Potsdam Conf. (July
1945)
Unconditional surrender
Timing and message to
Soviets
Cold War Heats Up
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Future of Germany
Atomic Diplomacy
Iron Curtain Speech
Kennan’s Telegram
(1946)
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Birth of Containment
Policy
Cold War Heats Up
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Truman Doctrine
(1947)
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Marshall Plan (1947)
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Implements
containment policy
Helps US economy
Undermines
conditions for
communism
NSC-68
Korean War
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Origins of Divided Korea
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North Korea Invasion
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Kim Il Sung
“Korea is the Greece of
the Far East”
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First “Hot” War
UN Police Action
China and MacArthur
Stalemate
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38th Parallel
The New Look
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Eisenhower and Massive
Retaliation
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CIA
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Covert operations and the
Third World
Iran
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Use of high tech and
aversion to ground troops
Mossadeq and the Shah
Guatemala
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United Fruit
Arbenz
The Atom Bomb and American
Culture in Early Postwar
America
Initial Reactions
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Anxiety, Fear, and
Elation
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Sense of doom
Atomic sales
Atomic bomb ring
Initial Reactions
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World Government
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United World
Federalists (1947)
International
Sharing
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Acheson-Lilienthal
Report (1946)
Atomic Cars and Cancer Cures
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New Hopes for
Positive Benefit of
the Atom
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Allowed Americans
to avoid dealing with
the realities of atomic
warfare
Cars
Radioactive isotopes
Cold War and the Bomb
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US Gov’t and
Positive Image of
the Atom
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Needed because of
reality of Cold War
“Sunny Side of the
Atom”
Cold War and the Bomb
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Civil Defense Greenbrier Bunker
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Russians detonate first
atomic bomb in 1949
“How to Survive an
Atomic Bomb”
Bomb shelters
Cold War Science Fiction Film
Ambivalence and Anxiety over
the Bomb
1950s Invasion Films
Politics, Cold War, and Science Fiction Space Exploration
Web Sites
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National Security Archive
Marshall Plan
Guatemala Coup
Iran Coup
Online Films—Cold War
Cold War Interviews
CNN Cold War
Cold War and a Hot Bomb
Tour the Greenbrier Bunker
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Propaganda Film Gallery
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Truman Speeches
Truman Doctrine
Kennan’s Mr. X Article
NSC-68
Walter Lippman, The Cold War
Novikov telegram
Civil Defense Documents
Covert Action in Guatemala,
1954
Dulles on Massive Retaliation