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The Cold War
Notes – Chapter 35
Truman: The “Gutty” Man
“the average man’s average man”
First president without a college
education
Used the phrase “If you cant stand the
heat, get out of the kitchen”
Started presidency with humility, but
gained confidence to point of cockiness;
had moxie
Mettle would be tested as tensions with
Russia heated up
Former Allies Clash
Yalta Conference – Feb 1945
“Big Three” FDR, Churchill, Stalin
Assign Occupation zones in Germany to the victors
Free Poland-representative government
UN - new international peacekeeping organization
• Controversial decisions on Far East:
– Lacking a tested atomic bomb, FDR wanted USSR to enter Asian war to pin down
Japanese troops in Manchuria and Korea
– Would lessen U.S. losses if had to invade Japan
– Stalin agreed to do so three months after Germany defeated,
– In return, FDR agreed for USSR to receive:
– Southern half of Sakhalin Island and Japan's Kurile island
– Control of railroads and two key seaports in China's Manchuria
Key Point
“The fact is that the Big Three at Yalta
were not drafting a comprehensive peace
settlement, at most they were sketching
general intentions and testing one
another’s reactions”
Former Allies Clash
US and USSR emerged as rival
superpowers
Bitter rivalry
USSR – communist country
State controlled all property
Totalitarian government – no opposing
parties
US – capitalist country
Private citizens control property
Democratic – vote with free political parties
Former Allies Clash
Stalin had only joined the Allies after Hitler
invaded the USSR
US suspicious
Stalin resented Allied delay in creating the
second front in WW2
US ended lend-lease to USSR
US had kept atomic bomb a secret
USSR wanted sphere of influence
for protection
Historical Thinking Skill
On page 822 in your textbook
Answer:
How has the
New York
Daily News
made the
USSR appear
more
menacing?
Why did the
New York
Daily News
do this?
COLD WAR
Both isolated from world affairs before WWII
United States through choice
Soviet Union through rejection by other powers
Both had “missionary” diplomacy—trying to
export their political doctrines
Tense standoff for four and a half decades
Overshadowed the entire postwar international
order in every corner of the globe
Bretton Woods Conference (1944):
Western allies established
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) to encourage
world trade by regulating currency exchange rates
• International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank) to aid economic growth
in war-ravaged and underdeveloped areas
– Three years later, GATT began global reduction in trade
barriers
• USA took lead in creating these bodies and
supplied much of their funding
• Soviets declined to participate
United Nations
Hopes for world peace
50 Nations met to establish UN in April 1945
US and USSR used UN as a forum to spread their influence
– U.N. provided that no member of Security Council,
dominated by Big Five (USA, Britain, France, USSR, and
China), could have action taken against it without its
consent
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U.N. General Assembly could be controlled by smaller
countries
In contrast to American reception of League in 1919, Senate
approved U.N. Charter on July 28, 1945, by vote of 89 to 2
UN Con’t
U.N., headquartered in New York City, had
some initial successes:
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Helped preserve peace in Iran, Kashmir, and other trouble spots
Played large role in creating new Jewish state of Israel
U.N. Trusteeship Council guided former colonies to independence
UNESCO, FAO, and WHO brought benefits to peoples across globe
New atomic technology tested spirit of
cooperation, and U.N. failed badly:
• USA proposed separate agency to have world-wide authority over
atomic energy, weapons, and research
• Soviet Union responded with call for total outlawing of nuclear
weapons by every nation, but USA refused
• Soviet Union used veto to scuttle proposals at U.N.
• Opportunity to tame nuclear monster lost
Historical Thinking
Create a T chart
One side of the chart listing similarities
and differences in the US and USSR as
evidence into categories such as religious,
political, economic and social
Similarities
Differences
The Problem of Germany
Allies joined in trying 22 top culprits at the
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Accusations included: crimes against he laws of
war and humanity and plotting aggressions
7 sentenced to long term jail terms
Victims were tried for crimes that were not clear
cut crimes when war began
The Iron Curtain
Europe was divided
Communist Eastern Europe v. Democratic
Western Europe
Churchill coins the phrase iron curtain
Metaphor for the division of Europe
Cold War
US v. USSR –neither nation confronted the
other on the battlefield
Dominated global affairs from 1945-1991
Truman Doctrine
The US will “support free peoples who are
resisting attempted subjugation by armed
minorities or by outside pressures”
US spends $400 million in aid to Greece and
Turkey
• Prevent communist take over
National Security Act – 1947
Set up Dept of Defense, CIA (keep draft)
Germany?
Issue of German reunification
Germany was divided into four zones after
WW2
US, UK, and France combined their zones in 1948
USSR held East Germany
City of Berlin was split into the two zones
Western Berlin was occupied by Allies, but
surrounded by Soviet territory
Stalin closed off routes into West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Berlin became a hugely symbolic issue for
both sides
Americans organized the BERLIN AIRLIFT
American pilots dropped tons of supplies
America honored its commitments in
Europe
Soviets lifted their blockade May 1949
Berlin Airlift
No fuel or food could reach
W. Berlin
US and UK flew food and
supplies to Berlin
W. Berlin survived
USSR lifted blockade and
US prestige
was raised
Containment
Stalin installed communist governments in
countries of Eastern Europe
Satellite nations – countries dominated by the USSR
War was inevitable?
US moves to contain the Soviet threat
George Kennan proposed policy of containment
Prevent the extension of communism to other
countries
Containment Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Sec. of State George Marshall
US provides aid to all European nations that
needed it
Revived European hopes
16 countries received $13 billion in aid
Communist party lost its appeal to voters in
Western Europe
National Defense Budget [1940-1964]
NATO
12 nations signed the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pledged military support
First time US entered a military
alliance during peacetime
NO isolationism for US!
Soviets respond with
Warsaw Pact
Nuclear Arms Race
Began during Truman’s Presidency
Soviets exploded atomic bomb in 1949
US entered into race for Hydrogen Bomb
Even more destructive – immoral?
US explodes H-Bomb in 1952
Soviets exploded H-Bomb 1953
More Bad News
Sept. 1949: Truman announced
Soviets had exploded an atomic bomb
To outpace Soviets in nuclear weaponry,
Truman ordered development of Hydrogen
bomb
• “H-bomb” much more powerful than atomic bomb
• J. Robert Oppenheimer led group of scientists in
opposition to development of thermonuclear weapons
• United States explored first hydrogen device in 1952
• Soviets countered with their first H-bomb explosion in
1953
• Nuclear arms race entered perilously competitive cycle
– Only constrained by recognition that truly hot Cold War
would destroy world
Brinkmanship
John Foster Dulles – Ike’s Secretary of State
ANTI-COMMUNIST
A moral crusade against communism
Brinkmanship – willingness to go to the edge
of all-out war
US trimmed army and navy to focus on its air force
Built up nuclear weapons
Chinese Civil War – 1946-1950
Reconstruction in China
Opposite of Japan:
• Bitter civil war raged between Nationalists vs. communists
• Washington halfheartedly supported Nationalist government
of Generalissimo Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) -- aid, but
no troops
• Communists led by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
• Corruption and ineptitude in Jiang's regime eroded popular
confidence in his government
• Communist armies forced Jiang in 1949 to flee to island of
Formosa (Taiwan)
Mainland China becomes communist
Democrats accused of being soft on communism
Korean War
[1950-1953]
Start of the Korean War
Korean War
North Korea attacked the South
USSR absent from UN
UN votes to restore peace
US aids South – MacArthur’s troops
China intervenes for North
MacArthur presses for retaliation/invasion of
China/use of nuclear weapons
Publicly complains
FIRED!
Korean War
[1950-1953]
Kim Il-Sung
Syngman Rhee
“Domino Theory”
The Shifting Map of Korea
[1950-1953]
End of the War
The Cold War Home Front
International events deeply
shaped American political and
economic developments
Loyalty review Board
investigated more than 3
million federal employees with
“communist” ties
HUAC-House Un-American
Activities Committee
HUAC
Alger Hiss-accused of being a communist
agent/convicted of perjury in 1950, and
sentenced to 5 years in prison
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-convicted of
1951 of espionage (only people in history
executed in peacetime for espionage)
Red Scare Video Clip
McCarthyism
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy:
February 1950: accused Secretary of State Dean Acheson of knowingly
employing 205 Communists
– McCarthy never identified a single actual communist
• His Republican colleagues encouraged him to attack
• His rhetoric grew bolder as did his accusations
• McCarthyism flourished in seething Cold War atmosphere of suspicion and
fear
Went too far when he attacked U.S. Army
• Military fought back in 35 days of televised hearings (spring 1954)
in Army-McCarthy hearings:
– Up to 20 million watched hearings as McCarthy publicly cut his own throat by
parading his essential meanness and irresponsibility
• Senate formally condemned him for “conduct unbecoming a
member”
– Three years later McCarthy died of chronic alcoholism
• “McCarthyism” a label for dangerous forces of unfairness/fear,
unleashed by democratic society
Joseph McCathy
Postwar Economic Anxieties
Joblessness and insecurity pushed up the
suicide rate and dropped the marriage rate
GNP slumped
Taft Hartley Act
– Outlawed “closed” (all-union) shop
– Made unions liable for damages that resulted from
jurisdictional disputes among themselves
– Required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath
Employment Act of 1946
Made government policy “to promote maximum employment,
production, and purchasing power”
GI Bill-colleges and universities increased
enrollment
Democratic Divisions in 1948
Republicans won control of Congress in the
congressional elections of 1946
1948 Election - Dewey vs Truman
Truman's nomination split party:
Embittered southern Democrats from thirteen
states
• Met in convention in Birmingham, Alabama
• Nominated Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina on States' Rights party ticket
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With Democrats split, Dewey's victory seemed
assured
Truman delivered over 300 hundred speeches
• Lashed out at Taft-Hartley “slave-labor” law
• And “do-nothing” Republican Congress
Truman wins
Truman outlined the Fair Deal
Improved housing, full employment,
national health insurance,
higher minimum age,
farm supports, new TVA’s
and extension of
social security
better
The Long Economic Boom 1950-1970
1950s economic surge:
• U.S. economic performance became envy of world
• National income nearly doubled in 1950s
• Nearly doubled again in 1960s
• Americans, 6% of world's population, enjoyed about
40% of planet's wealth
• Fantastic eruption of affluence
• Prosperity underwrote social mobility
• Paved way for success of civil rights movement
• Funded vast new welfare programs (e.g., Medicare)
• Gave Americans confidence to exercise
unprecedented international leadership
Americans
drank deeply from gilded goblet:
• Made up for sufferings of 1930s
• Determined to “get theirs” while getting was good
• “Middle class” households (earn between $3,000
and $10,000 a year) doubled to include 60% of
Americans by mid-1950s
• 60% of families owned their own homes in 1960,
compared to 40% in 1920s
• 1960: nearly 90% of families owned a television
Women reaped great rewards:
• Urban offices and shops provided bonanza of
employment
• Great majority of new jobs created went to
women
• Especially as service sector outgrew
manufacturing sector
• Women accounted for ¼ of U.S. workforce at end
of WWII and nearly ½ by 1990s
• Yet popular culture glorified traditional feminine
roles of homemaker and mother
• Clash between demands of suburban housewifery
and realities of employment eventually sparked
feminist revolt in 1960s
The Roots of Postwar Prosperity
What propelled economic growth:
Second World War itself:
• USA used war to fire up factories and rebuild economy
Much rested on underpinnings of colossal postwar
military budgets (see Figure 35.2)
• Fueled by massive appropriations for Korean War and
defense spending (10% of GNP)
• Pentagon dollars primed pumps of high-technology
industries—aerospace, plastics, and electronics
• Military budget financed much scientific research and
development (“R and D”)
– Unlocking secrets of nature key to unleashing economic growth
Roots of Postwar Cont
Cheap energy fed economic boom:
Americans and Europeans controlled flow
of abundant petroleum of Middle East to
keep prices low
Americans doubled oil consumption (1945'70) as they:
• Built endless ribbons of highways
• Installed air-conditioning in homes
• Engineered sixfold increase in country's
electricity-generating capacity between 1945'70
Roots of Postwar Cont
Spectacular gains in worker productivity
1950s: on average productivity increased 3% per
year
Enhanced by rising educational level of work
force
• By 1970, nearly 90% of school age population
enrolled in educational institutions
• Better educated and better equipped workers in
1970 could produce twice per hour as much as in
1950
• Rising productivity in 1950s and 1960s virtually
doubled average American's standard of living in
postwar years
Roots of Postwar Cont
Changes in nation's basic economic structure
– Accelerating shift of work force out of agriculture
• Consolidation produced giant agribusinesses
able to employ costly machines
• With mechanization, new fertilizers,
government subsidies and price supports:
– One farmworker could now feed 50 people,
compared to 15 people in 1940s
– By end of 1900s, farmers made up only 2% of
working Americans—yet fed much of world
The Smiling Sunbelt
Population redistribution begun by WWII:
• Americans had always been a people on the move
• After 1945, on average 30 million people changed
residences every year
• Families especially felt strain of separation
• Popularity of advice books on child-rearing:
– Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby
and Child Care
• In fluid postwar neighborhoods, friendships hard
to sustain
• Mobility exacted high human cost in
loneliness/isolation
The Smiling Sunbelt Cont
Growth of Sunbelt—15-state area:
From Virginia through Florida, Texas, Arizona,
California
Had population growth rate twice that of Northeast
California by 1963 = most populace state in USA
Federal funds key to prosperity of South and West
states:
Big effects on presidency and House of
Representatives
The Rush to the Suburbs
In all regions, whites fled cities for new
suburbs (see Makers of America)
Government policies encouraged movement away
from urban centers
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veterans
Administration (VA) offered home-loan guarantees
• Tax deductions for interest payments on home
mortgages a financial incentive
• Government-built highways sped commuters to
suburban homes; facilitated mass migration
Rush to the Suburbs Cont
Home construction industry boomed in 1950s and 1960s
Levittown revolutionized techniques of home construction
• Helped people move to suburbs
• Critics wailed at monotony of suburban “tract” development
“White flight” to suburbs left inner cities black, brown, and broke
(see Makers of America in Chap. 36)
Businesses (and their taxes) left cities for new suburban malls
Government policies aggravated pattern of residential segregation
by often denying FHA mortgages to blacks
Limited black mobility out of city, sent them to urban public housing projects—
thus solidifying racial separation
Blacks missed out on huge increase in value of suburban homes
The Postwar Baby Boom
Baby boom:
Huge leap in birthrate in fifteen years after
1945:
• Record number of marriages at war's end
• Began immediately to fill nation's empty cradles
• Touched off demographic explosion adding 50
million to nation by end of 1950s
• Crested in 1957
• By 1973, fertility rates dropped below point
necessary to maintain existing population without
immigration
Post War Baby Boom Cont
Boom-or-bust cycle of births begot bulging
wave along American population curve
• For example, increased elementary school
enrollments to nearly 34 million by 1970
• Then a closing of elementary schools and
unemployment of teachers in late 1970s
By 1960s, economic shift of baby products to
youth products (“youth culture”)
Baby boomers continued to affect culture and
economy as they aged