HST 604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comecon, Marshall Plan, Mccarthyism
5 May 2020
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Bothsuperpowers felt the other wastaking aggressive action requiring assertivereacton. Stalin pushed intelligence services to infiltrate usibritish govs assumed highest offices in britishgovs gained. Cambridge fire access to yhight sensive critical info west remained oblivious until the end of wwii. Igor gouzenko t elizabeth bentley communists had eyes 2 ears everywhere andcould not be trusted. Westminster college reflected changing attitudes of western world paranoia 0 fueledby belief of soviet spies everywhere turningeeyorecourabe aspy. Spreadof mccarthyism across americas in 1950s innocent people lost jobs. Trumans hesitation american foreign policy first several meetings of council of foreign ministers worked 1cooperation. 0 us ussr china france britain by 1947 peace treaties signed wlfinmd. pro a bulgwia ky hungary g i i g i y. gg although disagreements occurred finalresults were sucessful. Soviets were buildingpolice states building an empire thoughforce. Americans went to ware to secregued self derematon of small styles that were berg temptedby soviet imperialism butitwas russiadense again now.
