HIS344Y1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

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After victory: institutions, strategic restraints, and the rebuilding of order after major wars. The fate of nations: the search for national security in the. Politics among nations: the struggle for power and peace. Present at the creation: my years in the state department (cid:862)britai(cid:374) and the world, 1945-1949: the view from the foreign. The prelude to the truman doctrine: british policy in greece, Atomic diplomacy: hiroshima and potsdam, the use of the. Atomic bomb and the american confrontation with soviet power. The united states, great britain and the cold war, 1944-1947. Iron curtain, the crushing of eastern europe, 1944-1956. Diplomacy of pragmatism; britain and the formation of nato (cid:862)cooperation with like-minded peoples(cid:863): british i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es o(cid:374) Drawing the line: the origins of american containment policy in. The fifty years war: the united states and the soviet union in. The cold war begins: soviet-american conflict over eastern.