HIS 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Eisenhower Doctrine, Cultural Revolution, Lyndon B. Johnson
Document Summary
Beginning of the cold war: destruction of europe and defeat of japan left power vacuum, us and soviet union rushed to fill this, prompting conflict over influence and the cold war"s emergence. Rebuilding europe: communism and containment; berlin and germany divided, marshall plan us directed aid to western europe, nato, 1949 warsaw pact, 1955. Cold war both sides sought to avoid direct war; brinkmanship of the atomic age. Korean war (1950-1953: hot war, atomic bomb changed military affairs forever. Soviets worked hard to catch up to the americans, testing their first nuclear bomb in. 1950; north korean troops, backed by the ussr, invaded us backed south korea, setting off the korean war. National security as a dominant ideology in the west late 1940s and 1950s; truman to eisenhower - executive power of the presidency in- creased; allowed to initiate wars as police actions . Vs. a less coherent political culture characterized by anti-statism, isolationism, and an- timilitarism.
