GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: X Article, Warsaw Pact, Reagan Doctrine
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Module 11: historical overview of us foreign policy: the cold war. George kennan- father of containment policy published long telegram in 1946. Explain the behavior of the soviet union and based on this understanding of the nature of the soviet threat to create a policy that would counteract it. Soviet union would be persistently antagonistic towards the us and its allies. Us needs to give up hope for an war alliance/negotiations with the soviets. Soviet union was a special threat that was very different from hitler and the threat of. Soviet union did not want war while hitler did. Too weak from wwll to directly confront the us. Since its ideology teaches that their system is on the right side of history, the. Soviet regime could remain patient and not be afraid to temporarily retreat hostility toward the west was part of the dna of the soviet regime. Soviet threat was expansionary, but cautious (like water )
