HST 604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mccarthyism, Comecon, Titoism
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 sensitive 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. 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 peace treaties signed w finland romania bulgaria italy hungary y although disagreements occurred finalresults were sucessful i g. 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.
