HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Warsaw Pact, Comecon, Election
13 Nov 2017
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Trying to explain how the cold war came about (1) orthodox interpretation. Early interpretation of the cold war: debates on the cold war. Stalin tried to occupy as much of land as possible. Therefore, american leaders response is rational and understandable. Rebuilding open market of democracy in e. europe. Applaud truman doctrine (harry s. truman, 12 mar. Promised large scale military and economic support to greece and turkey to protect them from communism: winston churchill"s iron curtain speech, mar. Cold war rhetoric used to build up military-industrial complex in us plus support of repressive regimes. Moral equivalency between european empires of us and ussr. Us policy no different than ussr policy in eu. (3) post-revisionist accepts some of revisionist critique, but ascribes more blame to ussr. Agreeing that the soviets genuinely felt threatened by the us. But incline to the view that communism is a more dangerous theory than capitalism.
