HIST 3801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bizone, Cominform, Berlin Blockade
1 Apr 2015
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Lecture 3 introduction to the cold war. 4 monographies, 4 academic journal articles, 4 daily newspaper articles. Start with some historical event and personality ( ideas that are interests of yours) Dig deeper into what you know ( you would like to know more) Find something that is attractive for you and see if you have enough sources. The marshall plan / un / nato: gave intro into global integration. Today: from cooperation to confrontation (between the ussr and the west, the truman doctrine and the marshall plan. Broad commitment to interventionism but it could be seen as backfire because the. Us could be dragged into a costly war: central and eastern europe. Huge strategy how to fight the war and there was increase of rearmament on both sides: the german question, the nsc 68. Accusations of each towards each other: containment created by kennan which was based around the containment of the ussr.
