HIS 1111 Lecture 2: Week 2 – Origins of the Cold War.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Don't Know

Document Summary

Week 2 origins of the cold war. While historians cannot escape all the filters that condition their subjectivity, one simple tool that can help to curtail bias is to examine an event from opposing viewpoints. For example, in studying the origin of the cold war one might examine this from the perspective of both east and west and then try to reconcile these viewpoints with surviving evidence. Framework for analysis: slow dissolution of a marriage of convenience (1945: cold war metaphor. Exhausted, economically and spiritually from the war, the last thing anybody wanted in. June 1945 was another war, least of all amongst the allies who had collaborated to bring down hitler. And yet, within a short space of time, the mood in both the east and west soured and the cold war began. Yalta as postwar europe"s unwitting blueprint (1945: casabalanca conference (1942) Unconditional surrender condition = occupying germany and forcing them to surrender.