HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Armoured Personnel Carrier, Eisenhower Doctrine, Truman Doctrine
28 Aug 2015
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The coils of cold war 03. 18. 15: the cold war goes global. Political leaders drew on fears and anxiety in the years of the cold war to redefine what freedom meant -anti communism freedom was somehow separate from that political ideology. Aligned with free enterprises freedom became increasingly associated with social conformity rather and individualism and expression of individual identity. When ww2 ended, there were two governments in china: chinese national government headed by chiang kai-shek and chinese communist government headed by mao zedong: chiang kai-shek (nationalist) vs. mao zedong (communist) These two factions got along best as they could, corporate during ww2 in what they saw centrified against japan but as soon as japan surrendered, bloody civil war had long been growing have erupted. In 1949, certain republican critics of the truman administration began declaring that truman had lost china senator robert taft criticized democrats and truman specifically for letting. Truman saw it was experiment - containment global.
