POL SCI 120A Lecture 6: W3L2 10_19_17 LECTURE
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Week 3 lecture 2 thursday october 19, 2017 truman doctrine. A few days after germany surrendered in wwii, the us cut back on lend-lease aid to the. Fdr rejected churchill"s pleas to negotiate with the soviets while us forces were occupying parts of germany. Thought truman had abandoned the policy of us-soviet cooperation. Stalin couldn"t understand why the us was so concerned about poland: truman returns to fdr"s policies, many historians believed that it was truman"s fault that the cold war happened. A month after he took office, returned to fdr"s policies. Truman didn"t want to responsible for another war, so he ended the get tough approach: wanted the soviets to keep their agreements. By this time, truman had the time to read over the yalta agreements and realized that they were ambiguous. Came to realize that us-soviet cooperation was more important than eastern europe: hopkins mission that elections should be as free as a political boss would allow.
