HIST 2057 Study Guide - Cold War Ii, Truman Doctrine, Executive Order 9835
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Changes in us foreign policy and origins of the cold war. In wwii, we promote democracy by force: wwii proved we could do it in other ways, we"ve always wanted access to markets abroad, we must have markets elsewhere. What is cold war: cold war is a clash that begins in roughly 1946 and ends when the ussr collapses in. 1989: called cold because it is never actually a shooting war, us and ussr don"t fight directly, they fight, geo-politics, fancy word for global/political confrontation, every nation in the world is in play, capitalism vs. Interstate highway system needed for cold war, in case ussr invaded the military needed it to move around quickly: funding for higher education skyrockets h. Drop off material that people in that city need to survive: this worked i. In the end almost 3 million tons of material was flown in over the course of a year j.
