PS-0061 Lecture Notes - Warsaw Pact, Truman Doctrine, Iron Curtain
10 Mar 2014
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1947-53: cw heats up, korean war: korean war still not officially over. 1963-68: stabilization, mad, peripheral crises: mad: mutually assured destruction, vietnam war, nixon elected in 1968. 1979-85: cw resurgence, peripheral crises: 1979: soviet invasion in china, reagon elected. 1985-91 towards the end of cw: wall falls in 89. Key issues and events in the lead-up to and in the early cold war (1944-50) end of wwii (poland, yalta, potsdam: us atomic bomb post wwii period, x article containment strategy, 3 choices: isolationism, rollback, containment, george f kennan. Chief of mission at moscow embassy sent the long telegram in 1946, which was published in foreign affairs july. Soviet atomic bomb: nato, north atlantic treaty organization, successful soviet nuclear test; loss of us atomic monopoly, to signal commitment to we nato formed (1949, nsc-68 begins largely as a political construct; military apparatus follows with onset of. Written like a propaganda document to us (1950)
