Here's your assignments for the week.
Readings - Chapter 37 in The American Pageant. GRQ's and ID's are due this THURSDAY. I know, "we did this already." We need to review, and I need to know that we're all on the same page. REMINDER - THE GRQ's and ID's are from the 13th Edition, but our book is the 12th. That means that for chapter 37, you should do the chapter 36 GRQ's and ID's.
Quiz/Test on FRIDAY on Chapter 37.
Monday Night - MOVIE NIGHT IS BACK!
Pick from the two videos listed below. Or, if you want GEM points, or simply seek to deepen your knowledge of all things Cold War, watch both.
Documents the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war. The program focuses on the legacy of mistrust between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and also discusses the impact of the Lend-Lease Act, NATO, and the post-World War Two GI Bill. Additional coverage of bomb detonation in New Mexico and missile testing efforts chronicles the early days of the atomic age. Explaining such concepts and events as the iron curtain, the Korean War, and communism, this stimulating documentary captures the social and political events of a turbulent era of United States history.
Video #2 - The Unfinished Nation: Fallout
Surveys the political, social, and economic climate of America during the early cold war. Beginning with a look at Harry Truman's 1948 presidential victory over Thomas Dewey, the program looks at the impact of Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace on the deeply divided Democratic and Republican parties during the era. Knowledgeable history scholars comment on the United Nations's recognition of Israel as a nation and Palestine's status as a state in 1948 while measuring the increasing threat of the atomic bomb and communist influence from the Soviet Union. As the presentation notes, the fervor of McCarthyism and the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trials changed America's attitudes toward political deviation and helped usher in the quaint and controlled social climate of the 1950s.
Tuesday Night - Podcast Tuesday
Choose one of the following, or do both for GEM points.
The United Nations was established October 24th, 1945, and it is fitting that this week Talking History should air an interview with Stephen Schlesinger. Schlesinger is the Director of the World Policy Institute and the author of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nation. Airdate: October 24, 2005.
U.S. Grand Strategy and the Cold War
Our final show--while programming is suspended pending further funding--features a conversation with guest Melvyn Leffler and host Bryan Le Beau. Leffler spoke to Bryan Le Beau while attending a Cold War conference in Kansas City in March 2006. Their discussion focused on Leffler’s conference paper, titled: "Truman, US Grand Strategy, and the Cold War, 1945-1952." Leffler is a professor of history at the University Virginia. Airdate: June 26, 2006.
Wednesday - Finish Chapter 37 GRQ's and ID's (Chapter 36 in the Workbook)
Thursday - 1. Review Chapter 37 and Review Lecture 65 and Lecture 66 to help you prepare for a quiz/test on FRIDAY
Friday - Discussion Question - Answer the following in a blog post of at least 50 words...
How did the U.S. policy of containment affect the decision-making of the government during the 1940s and 1950s? Did Americans overreact to the potential threat of communistic influence in the U.S.?
12 comments:
The cold war was a tension between the united states and the soviet union after world war two
Joseph Stalin was a traitor and spread comnunism in europe
There was a trust before world war two and when it ended it was broken
The friendship between the soviet union started in 1919
The soviets had fear in our manhattan project when we developed the nucleur bomb
Russia succesfully detonated a nucleur bomb and the american didnt like this at all
The cuban missle crisis was when russia was holding missles in cuba and they were a threat to us. We viewed these missles with a UAV drone plane without a pilot in it and the soviet union shot it down. Americans were holding missles in Turkey just in case Russia attacked us we had a backup plan
Joseph Stalin was very powerfull and he was easily triggered to attack due to any fear of threat that he had
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies after he leaves office
Russia was occupying Poland and spreading their power as well as comnunism
1946 Stalin gives a speech on how things in russia were going to be done
There was no actual battle in the Cold War
The Cold War was the closest the United States was to battling their Allie the Soviet Union
MONDAY NIGHT HOMEWORK BOTH VIDEOS
OLIVIA KUROS
Unfinished Nation: Fallout
-Harry Truman wins the election of 48 suprisingly.
-Republicans block legislative reforms.
-Harry Truman put forth ambitious civil rights forward. Denied but opened the door.
-Hubert Humphrey demands that the Democratic party commit itself to civil rights. Convention of 1948 speech "walk in the bright sunshine of civil rights"
-Democratic platform not different than what Roosevelt advocated.
-Republicans stand behind Thomas E. Dewey as their candidate.
-Truman believes he represents the middle and advocted the farm.
-Jewish supporters key Democratic supporters as Truman recognized Isreal to be recognized as an independent state.
-1948 Truman was against the Soviet Union.
-Labor Union was close to Wallace.
-Truman raises minimum wage. Congress rejects health insurance.
-Government policy was going to end the segregation within the military.
-Arms race underway as America obtained the atomic bomb.
-Fear that there are disloyal people within the United States, fear of communists on the rise.
-Red Scare high alert and awareness of Soviet Spy and Espionage.
-Resurgance of nationalism in Vietnam, India, liberation movements inspired by communism and other radical sets of beliefs.
-New Deal was called communist.
-Mcarthyism was on the rise.
-He despises the man with silver spoons born in their mouths.
-Suspision cast upon Roosevelt himself.
-Take a real situation of Espionage making it murkey and utilize it as a tool. J. Edgar Hoover gives Mcarthy info and homosexuals were fired as they were thought to be vaulnerable of releasing info becuase of blackmail.
-1952 Truman withdraws from the presidential race.
-Dwight D Eisenhower a war hero, head of Columbia university came into the race as a republican.
Unfinished Nation: Collapse of Peace
-tensions mount before the end of WWII and the tension mounts over the war between USA and Soviet Union.
-World became divided between these power.
-Sought influence over the war. Competing visions on how to run society.
-Stalin argued that the war was for nationalistic purposes.
-America grants lend lease aide.
-Opening of the Western Front caused tension.
-Stalin resented that it took two years to open this front.
-Allied leaders meet periodically within the World War.
-Stalin was determined and paranoid in his ways.
-Yalta accords contained two contradicitng statements saying that the Poles could elect their own government while saying the Soviets would be the head of their government.
-FDR is dead two months later thus Truman comes into office.
-Containment is applied to maintain Sovet Expansion by political and economic measures initiallity but later military forces as well.
-CIA central intelligence agency was created to infiltrate Soviet Union.
-Black and white policies concerning communist vs non communist.
-Czechoslovakia is turned into sattelite.
-Marshall Plan implimented in 1948.
OLIVIA KUROS
TUESDAY NIGHT HW
BOTH VIDEOS
UNITED NATION PODCAST
-Established October 24, 1945
-UN was an American project
-FDR instructed a charter be constructed for the UN to be assembled to prevent any wars to occur like WWII again in history.
-Without Truman and FDR there would be no UN today.
-1945 USA most powerful country in the world.
-America could have assembled coalitions as oppose to a UN that would permanently bind countries of the world.
-Truman assured that the conference which FDR assembled before his death.
-America was in crisis a new unknown president coming into power without credibility. Man who has never gone to college. Enigmatic figure.
-Was he willing to set up the UN, and he proved he was.
-First decision as president was to go forward with the UN conference.
-Truman was one of the most nationalist presidents.
-Conference was held in San Fransisco
US GRAND STRATEGY PODCAST
-Yalta conference ukranian town where the soviet union britain and us met to speak of post war Europe.
-No allies only colonial interests. Churchill desired to start war with Soviet Union following WWII.
-No one wanted what they desired from Yalta except for the Soviets.
-April 1945 Truman became president unfamiliar with FDR's diplomacy and atomic bomb strategies.
-Truman was resentful that FDR never confided with him and left him in the darkness.
-Truman was largely ignorant with agreements both formal and informal made during FDR's term.
-He learned what happened at Yalta from the secretary of state who attented the conference along with FDR.
-FDR didnt confide in people. President Roosevelt knew he was sick and never chose to share the information that nay successor would need to have.
-Truman's intention is to follow FDR's policies.
-FDR was going to deal with the wartime alliances.
-Truman was riddled with a bunch of inconsistencies and claeryly wanted to get along with the soviet union and met stalin at the putnam conference. He liked Stalin and believed he could be one to do business with.
-Truman wasnt going to returnt to isolationism and wanted to join a internationalist position.
-World Bank and International Monetary funds were supported by Truman.
-"You are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead"
-Plea bargain threatens to sneer political figures.
-CAsh for policy culture.
-Reform sometimes follows scandals throughout history.
Tuesday Video
Luca Damasco 5/12/10
US Grand Strategy Podcast
Notes -
The Yalta conference is called among the Allied powers in order to discuss the fate of post-war Europe. The Russians did not view the US and Britain as allies. Harry Truman took over presidency after Roosevelt's death. Truman was quite ill informed when he took the presidency due to the lack of passed information. Truman relied heavily on his secretary of state James Burnes. FDR and Truman were not very close. Roosevelt knew he was sick yet did not share information which Truman would need to effectively lead the US in beginning Cold War time. Roosevelt wanted to get together with the allies after the war was over. This was in order to keep good ties with the USSR. Roosevelt towards the end of the war began to dislike actions taken by the USSR. Truman was faced with the Daunting task in defeating Japan. They had the Unconditional Surrender way through an invasion which would lose an estimated 1 million lives or use the atomic bomb in order to destroy major Japanese cities in order to force a surrender. Truman used the atomic bomb route which he felt would be the most effective and life sound way. The atomic bomb would begin controversy with the USSR. Truman felt Josef Stalin was a "Man you could do business with." Truman wanted to get along with the USSR on US terms and vice versa. Truman wanted to go along with an internationalist policy. ex. expanding trade, lowering tariffs.
The Truman doctrine was a way to support the American way of life throughout the world. The MArshal plan was enacted in order to give aid to countries which were affected by World War 2. This was in order to express US values in Europe in order to have Europeans support Capitalist rather than Communistic ideas.
Podcast
The United Nations was a formation of naions that joined together to prevent any future wars
The United Nations was established in October 24 1945 in a conference in San Franciso California lead by Harry Truman with the help of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who recently dies.
The United Nations still exists today
The United Nations started right after world war two as the united states didnt want to get in any wars
No. America did not overreact in trying to put a stop to comnunism. Comnunism is a huge problem. It is unfair and it is overall the wrong way to lead a nation.The United states being a world power had to stand up and save basically the world from comnunism because comnunism was quickly spreading from Europe and to Asia. One of Roosevels main fears were comnunism and Stalin betrayed Roosevelt and went along his comnunism rulings. If we didnt take action the world could of been toooken over by comnunism. That in my eyes is a problem
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Fri., May 14th Homework (Question)
When the U.S. followed the policy of Containment, the government was careful when making decisions. The government thought hard about their decisions because the U.S. was part of NATO. NATO broke the U.S. policy of staying out of permanent alliances. This U.S. policy had been used since Washington’s farewell speech. NATO was an alliance between capitalist nations that were against communism. This alliance was a promise between the capitalist nations to help each other out if any communist invasions occur in their country. The government during this period made some drastic changes and decisions that were unusual at this time. This shows that the U.S. would do anything to stop the spread of communism; if they are willing to put forth their promise in a permanent alliance. Americans like the U.S. government did overreact to the potential threat of communist influence in the U.S. A prime example of this statement is the Palmer Raids. The Palmer raids were attempts made by the United States Department of Justice to arrest any body with the suspicion of communism. The Palmer Raids were unnecessary; in the end there were arrests that were not called for. Many people were injured from the raids and even badly beaten. The U.S. Department of Justice literally abused the power during the Palmer Raids because some of the victims had no connection to communism and was still affected by this event.
Sara Dorfman
How did the U.S. policy of containment affect the decision-making of the government during the 1940s and 1950s? Did Americans overreact to the potential threat of communistic influence in the U.S.?
In the last few years of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, the government was acutely aware of the threat that communism posed to other countries (aptly titled the “Domino Effect”). In order to combat this, a containment policy was taken up by the U.S. and things like the Truman Doctrine went into effect, along with the U.S. joining NATO. I think that while Americans had every right to be fearful of a communist infiltration, I believe that they took some of the more extreme measures to eradicate it.
Containment is a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully. The US policy of containment affected the decision-making of the government during the 1940s and 1950s because it made the US more cautious in making decisions. The US took part of an alliance called NATO and put Truman Doctrine in effect. NATO was an alliance of those nations who were against communism. During the 1940's and 50's the US would do anything to stop the spread of communism. I think that Americans did overreact to the potential threat o communitic influence in the US.
Nelofar Asadi APUSH
The U.S. poilcy of containment affected the decision-making of the government during the 1940s and the 1950s. It affected the decision making by making the government more aware, and careful about what they choose to do. Containment was when they wanted to create a strategic alliance to check the expanision of a hostile power. The Truman D. was present when the U.S. joined the NATO allience. The NATO allience was an allience that were against communism. The nations in the NATO alliance were to work together to get eachother out of any situation if the communist took over the country that they lived in. I think that Americans overreacted to the potential threat of communistic influences in the U.S. Anybody who was accused, or that was calling for attntion was arrested, which is unfair. If they thought that they person was part of communism, even without proof, they would be arrested.
How did the U.S. policy of containment affect the decision-making of the government during the 1940s and 1950s? Did Americans overreact to the potential threat of communistic influence in the U.S.?
In responce to communism the US created the Truman Doctrine, NATO, marshal plan, etc. The US policy of containism affected the decisions of the government during the 1940s and 1950s. They were more careful and cautions with their decisions. I think that Americans had everyright to be afraid and react badly but their was a limit to it. Americans could have handled it better in a way that more panic wouldnt be caused and the givernment wouldnt have to have another interuption.
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