Cold War Dbq
Topic: The Cold War
Research Question: The fall of the mutually friendly American Soviet relations was most significantly caused by the Soviet Union expanding it borders, violating its allied agreements, and imposing communist governments on its neighboring nations.
Command Term: Analyze and Explain
Dates: 1945-1990
Locales: Eastern/Western Europe
Events: The end of world war two and the conferences during and following including Yalta,Potsdam and Tehran. Also informations and influence of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. The reaction of the Soviets with the Molotov Plan and COMECON and their plan to spread communism. Include the Korean war and other wars.
Significance: At the end of WWII Stalin had the red army spread throughout …show more content…
First the American ambassador to Russia George Kennan in his writings he says that communism needs to be contained and if contained it would destroy itself with no where to expand. Also in 1946 Clark Clifford in a report said that we should offer support to any democratic country that is threatened by the U.S.S.R. (Penn)
In the development of the Cold War The Truman Doctrine in fact did not threaten communism because it clearly states that it is to contain communism not destroy it. The overall goal was to back up the surrounding countries if the communism spread. So it was not an act of aggression. (Flynn)
Military:
The Truman doctrine also was the first step towards collective security and overall the creation of NATO. (Flynn)
In 1946 The Soviets invaded Iran for oil and minerals and Stalin tried to stay there through political means asking for mineral and oil rights. However Britain and the U.S. did not stand for this so they threatened military force and Stalin backed out. (Penn)
Marshall Plan
Was an economic aid program developed right after the Truman doctrine to help European countries recover from WWII and resist Soviet expansion. …show more content…
The strong point of the article was stating that this Doctrine to mainly focusing on the containment of communism by aiding Greece and Turkey so the communist parties in these countries did not succeed. It also included the effects of the doctrine how is lead to collective security and eventually NATO.
Values: The value of this article is that is was written after the speech was given and presents some form of analysis and later effects of the doctrine. As well it shows how the Truman doctrine affected the Cold War in how it lead to the creation of NATO and initial conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It also offers first hand quote from the speech and documents of Truman to support the facts and analysis.
Limitations: The limitations to this document are that it was written after the speech and progress so it is more analysis than first hand situational information. It also limits my research in finding the impact of the Truman doctrine that it is more telling the effects and what it lead to rather than its initial impact and problems in Greece and Turkey at the
Research Question: The fall of the mutually friendly American Soviet relations was most significantly caused by the Soviet Union expanding it borders, violating its allied agreements, and imposing communist governments on its neighboring nations.
Command Term: Analyze and Explain
Dates: 1945-1990
Locales: Eastern/Western Europe
Events: The end of world war two and the conferences during and following including Yalta,Potsdam and Tehran. Also informations and influence of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. The reaction of the Soviets with the Molotov Plan and COMECON and their plan to spread communism. Include the Korean war and other wars.
Significance: At the end of WWII Stalin had the red army spread throughout …show more content…
First the American ambassador to Russia George Kennan in his writings he says that communism needs to be contained and if contained it would destroy itself with no where to expand. Also in 1946 Clark Clifford in a report said that we should offer support to any democratic country that is threatened by the U.S.S.R. (Penn)
In the development of the Cold War The Truman Doctrine in fact did not threaten communism because it clearly states that it is to contain communism not destroy it. The overall goal was to back up the surrounding countries if the communism spread. So it was not an act of aggression. (Flynn)
Military:
The Truman doctrine also was the first step towards collective security and overall the creation of NATO. (Flynn)
In 1946 The Soviets invaded Iran for oil and minerals and Stalin tried to stay there through political means asking for mineral and oil rights. However Britain and the U.S. did not stand for this so they threatened military force and Stalin backed out. (Penn)
Marshall Plan
Was an economic aid program developed right after the Truman doctrine to help European countries recover from WWII and resist Soviet expansion. …show more content…
The strong point of the article was stating that this Doctrine to mainly focusing on the containment of communism by aiding Greece and Turkey so the communist parties in these countries did not succeed. It also included the effects of the doctrine how is lead to collective security and eventually NATO.
Values: The value of this article is that is was written after the speech was given and presents some form of analysis and later effects of the doctrine. As well it shows how the Truman doctrine affected the Cold War in how it lead to the creation of NATO and initial conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It also offers first hand quote from the speech and documents of Truman to support the facts and analysis.
Limitations: The limitations to this document are that it was written after the speech and progress so it is more analysis than first hand situational information. It also limits my research in finding the impact of the Truman doctrine that it is more telling the effects and what it lead to rather than its initial impact and problems in Greece and Turkey at the