HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nato, Strom Thurmond, Alger Hiss
The Cold War
Monday, March 19, 2018
11:02 AM
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech"
• One side of the curtain is controlled by Soviets
• Other controlled by Britain
• Iron curtain is currently metaphorical but the Berlin wall will come in soon
• Eleanor Roosevelt was angered by the speech and felt he was tarnishing FDR's reputation
Containment and the Truman Doctrine
• George Kennan
• Soviets were trying to expand communism and they are trying to contain the expansion of such
ideas
• Truman Doctrine: US will help any country who is trying to combat communism
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Nothing gets in or out in order to starve it to death
• Berlin divided into 3 different zones. Two for allies and one for the soviets
• Flew planes over Berlin to drop in supplies
Chambers-Hiss Case
• Whittaker Chambers
• Alger Hiss
Election of 1948
• Harry S. Truman(D) vs Thomas E. Dewey ( R) vs. Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
• US Military is finally integrated and the blacks and whites fight together
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
• Soviets counter to NATO
The Soviet Atomic Bomb
• 1st test bomb
• Julies and Ethel Rosenberg
o Executed June 19th, 1953
o Charged with complicity for providing atomic secrets to the soviets
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