HIST 015A Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Central Intelligence Agency, Truman Doctrine, Workforce Productivity
11 May 2019
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● Post-Economic Anxieties
○ Fear of a return to depression
○ The souring of relations with the USSR
○ The employment act and the GI bill of rights
■ Allocate massive amounts of money to GI Vets
■ Have them use it to go back to school
● The Long Economic Boom
○ Doubling of the national income
○ The roots of postwar prosperity
■ Large military budgets
■ Cheap energy
■ Increase in workforce productivity
■ Labor shift away from agriculture - agribusinesses
● Shifting Demographics
○ American mobility
○ Sunbelt
■ From Florida to Texas to California
○ The rush to the suburbs
○ Federal policies encouraging movement
○ Construction industry boom
○ Postwar baby boom
● Shaping the Postwar World
○ The effects of world War 2
■ Europe in ruins, asian in ruins
○ The History of US - Soviet Relations
● The Problem of Germany and Eastern Europe
○ Disagreement over the fate of germany
○ The division of postwar germany
○ Soviet control over Bulgaria , Romania, and Hungary
○ Soviets bar free elections in Poland
● The Formulation of the Truman Doctrine
○ Truman’s early responses
○ George F Kennan and the Policy of Containment
○ Crises in greece and turkey
■ Greece in civil war
■ Turkey had rebellions
■ March 12th truman announced the truman doctrine
■ Asked for 400million dollars of aid to greece and turkey
○ Spreading democratic governments
● America Begins to rearm
○ The national security act of 1947
■ Unification of armed services
■ The national security council
■ Central intelligence agency
Document Summary
The souring of relations with the ussr. The employment act and the gi bill of rights. Allocate massive amounts of money to gi vets. Have them use it to go back to school. Labor shift away from agriculture - agribusinesses. The history of us - soviet relations. The problem of germany and eastern europe. Soviet control over bulgaria , romania, and hungary. George f kennan and the policy of containment. March 12th truman announced the truman doctrine. Asked for 400million dollars of aid to greece and turkey. An attack on any member of nato is considered an attack to all members. The closing of the soviet zone border. The belief that the nationalists had the upper hand. The communist victory and the loss of china . The communist threats on the home front. Nsc 68 - massive us military buildup. Launched an sea invasion and caught them by surprise and pushed them back.
