HIST 1351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mao Zedong, Marshall Plan, American Imperialism
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Creation of the united nations, sept 1945: headquarters of the united nations is in new york, general assembly. Cold war: origins and nature 1945-1955: developing cold war policy and securing europe. President has to take a look and decide what the united states" approach to it will be. Stalin is supposed to be holding an election but he keeps putting it off: containment policy, january 1947. Kennan had been in an ambassador roll for the soviet during the war and he came back and briefed the u. s. about what it looked like stalin was going to do. Marshall was a very well respected individual. Was the army chief of staff in the wwii. The united states tells the soviet union that they can occupy eastern. Europe and if you try to go out of that area then the u. s. will respond. U. s. "s role will become larger because of this policy. Greece was going to fall to the communist factor.
