PSCI 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: General American, Marshall Plan, Western Europe
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Initial preparations: naval power, designed to ensure american trade. Lend and lease act: allows us to lend equipment to the british, way to get around nuetrality acts, pearl harbor, ends debate. Shock to american people - worst attack on us soil since 1812. Soviet aggression: violate yalta, expand sphere of influence early 1947, greece and turkey. Iran: china, great britain"s role, too weak to handle su on their own. February 24 1947: uk announces they can no longer support financially democratic movements in greece and turkey, truman and the soviet threat, proposes tough policy. Standing up to the spread of communism: appeals to moral universals, su as an ideological adversary, marshall plan, us aid to europe to rebuild after wwii, everywhere but spain and eastern europe (forbidden by. July - formation of nato: mutual security pact between us and western europe, soviets test a bomb in august.
