HIST-1020 Study Guide - Final Guide: Battle Of Pusan Perimeter, Klaus Fuchs, Battle Of Chosin Reservoir

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Nations: we wanted the russians to help us against japan within 3 months of the end of the war in europe russians agreed. The us and soviet union had different economic systems (capitalist v. communist: george f. kennan, 2. Different political traditions (democratic v. communist: 3. Death of franklin roosevelt and the accession of truman (roosevelt was good with stalin, truman wasn(cid:495)t(cid:524: (cid:498)the iron curtain(cid:499) west = hope/democracy . Truman doctrine 1947: said the us will aid any european nation threatened by a communist takeover, +when is was, what it said, part of containment, (cid:884). The creation of west germany: set up west germany as democratic, 4. The berlin airlift (cid:495)49: west berlin was democratic and east was communist. Russians blocked off west berlin to cease it. Truman decided this was unacceptable so we flew in tons of supplies to make it clear that the us will hold on to the.