HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: A Colder War, National Security, Marshall Plan
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They believed they were following roosevelt"s aggressive wartime policies and. Begins to create the national security state by being involved in the entire world. Best described as a new deal for europe. Marshall plan stated that if you qualified as being in the american orbit, you would get marshall plan aid (this was a bummer for eastern europe because the. Soviets wouldn"t allow the countries to get the aid. ) After the communists won china, truman took the blame. Truman blames chang-kai shek for the communists" win. These events struck a fear in the us. There were spies, and the us didn"t know where the spies were. Allied nations form a pact agreeing to protect each other from communist intervention. In the end of 1949, the security council, in conjunction with the truman administration, pass us policy nsc-68 (national security council). It can set standards for the military and pass spending bills.
