Causes of the Cold War
 

-- Great Men Approach

-- Long-Term Trends

-- Synthesis?

 

-- The Atomic Bomb?

 

From Enemies to Friends

 

-- Long-Term Problems: Mutual Hostility

-- U.S.

-- Soviet Union

-- Conflicting Postwar Security Goals

-- Wartime Thaw

-- Russia's Unchanged View of Allies

 

 

From Friends to Enemies

 

-- Truman and the Failure of Potsdam: (August 1945)

-- Truman and Foreign Policy!"

-- Mixed Signals.

-- Loans-- From Compromise to Unilateralism

-- The Atomic Bomb: Catalyst to the Cold War--

-- Failure of Atomic Diplomacy

-- Failure to Share Technology

-- US Actions: West Germany & Economic Aid

-- Security Dilemma

 

Moves Toward a Cold War

 

-- Postwar Balance of Power.

-- US & Russia

-- Europeans

-- East Europe--The Iron Curtain

-- Hungary & Czechoslovakia

-- Finland

-- Yugoslavia

-- Soviet Victory?

-- Chaos in Western Europe and US Limits

-- Changing American Philosophy--Reinhold Niebuhr

-- George Kennan and Containment

-- Tenets

-- Greece: The Key to the Mediterranean

-- Congressional Opposition

-- Dominos

-- The Truman Doctrine

-- The Marshall Plan

-- Pandora's Box

1) Globalization of Threat

2) Free Nations?

3) Seige Mentality

-- NATO

-- Russian Response: The Berlin Crisis

-- Assessment