HIST 2057 Chapter : 7312
Document Summary
Likely to appear: 2nd new deal of 35 legislation wpa, social security, wagner act (collective bargaining) Hoover: face of relief efforts, great humanitarian, relief efforts after wwi. Sec of treasury in 1920"s: andrew mellon, lower deficit and decreasing income taxes. Manhatten project truman learns about this when he becomes president. Cold war takes shape: truman at the helm immediately in the wake of wwii. George kennan and containment (feb "46): the long telegram that recommends the containment of soviet expansion. If the communist gov"t is contained it will fall on its own. Churchill gives speech declaring that there is an iron curtain. Greece and the truman doctrine (march "47): civil war breaks out in greece, gb does not have the money to aid the greek gov"t. Republicans had been promised that excessive spending would end soon. He writes the truman doctrine and gets the money.
