HISTORY 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Truman Doctrine, Working Class In The United States, Marshall Plan
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Us anti-communism abroad: the greek civil war of 1946-49 & the truman doctrine. Complex greek civil war left vs right. Mar 46-: churchill"s iron curtain" speech: freedom of west vs tyranny of soviets. Br weakened, and wanted a bigger us world role. Mar 47: truman doctrine speech echoes churchill. 1st drafts of speech about us mid-east oil interests; then rewritten as good vs evil . 1947 on: us took over from br in greece; advisors, war material (napalm), finance. Grk regular army under us gen van fleet. Us-backed grk rightist victory by late 49. Cold war: u. s. vs ussr on opposing sides in eur & beyond. W. eur: common market (eec) growing since the mid-50s, traditional euro great powers (br, fr, esp) declining. Us backed right wing dictatorships of seur: portugal, spain, greece. Ussr dominates e. eur; command economies;1 party states.
