POLS 2490 Lecture 9: Cold War

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2490
• Professor: Elizabeth Dauphinee

Document Summary

Truman sent one of his generals to those countries in those europe who has been affected the most by the war. The idea is that should us aid in their rebuilding of political systems. The conflicting understandings of the marshal plan is one of the ingredients. But it is the speech by truman in which he outlined the so called containment strategy: containment strategy: creation of nato, marshal plan, and to prevent the soviet union to prevent access on technology, containing vs. Balancing strategy: balancing is checking their output expansion, containment even if they overlap, there are emphasis on propaganda. Us is superior to other countries . propaganda highlighted the shortcomings. It is one that is concerned with ideological conflict: 1947-1949: declaration of the cold war, 1950-1963: the height of the cold war, 1962 is important su wanted to have nuclear missiles in cuba. Link back to security and insecurity of other states = war.