UNITED STATES HISTORY II
LECTURE OUTLINE SIX
- WARTIME DIPLOMACY (CONT'D.)
- Operation Torch as the Second Front
- ALLIED CONFERENCES
- 1/43--Casablanca
- 11/43--Teheran
- 2/45--Yalta
- goals of the Allies at Yalta
- the dilemma of Poland
- results of the Yalta Conference
- DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB
- military factors
- diplomatic maneuvers
- psychological motivations
- revenge factor
- HARRY TRUMAN AND POSTWAR LIBERALISM
- Truman's postwar troubles
- 80th Congress
- Taft-Hartley Act
- The Upset of 1948
- record of the 80th ("Do-Nothing" Congress)
- status of the Republican Party
- status of the Democratic Party
- Henry Wallace and the Progressives
- Strom Thurmond and the "Dixiecrats"
- Truman's victory and the enduring New Deal coalition
- TRUMAN AND THE FAIR DEAL
- how was it an extension of the New Deal?
- how did it go beyond the New Deal?
- civil rights
- national health insurance
- federal aid to education
- factors that limited the success of the Fair Deal
- DWIGHT EISHENHOWER AND "MODERN REPUBLICANISM"
- definition of "modern Republicanism"
- Ike's election in 1952
- 1950s--consensus and conformity
- 1950s--the paradox of complacency and paranoia
- Ike and "modern Republicanism's" view of the welfare state
- Ike's view of the federal government's responsibility for social welfare
- expansion of the power of the federal government under Ike
- was there a cutback of the New Deal?
- ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
- definition of "Cold War"
- factors that led to the emergence of the Cold War
- UN is hampered
- postwar events in Eastern Europe
- Truman's hardline approach
- US/USSR disagreement over the status of the postwar world
- overall atmosphere of mistrust
- CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTAINMENT
- George Kennan and the theory of containment
- TRUMAN AND CONTAINMENT
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- NATO in 1949
- PERMANENT AND MILITARIZED CONTAINMENT
- the reorganization of military intelligence and the bureaucracy
- NSC-68
- THE COLD WAR IN ASIA
- the "fall" of China
- 1950 and the Korean "Conflict"--symbol of both commitment and frustration
- EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
- John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State
- the concept of "rollback"
- covert action of the CIA
- massive retaliation or "brinksmanship"
- JFK'S ACTIVIST FOREIGN POLICY
- the theory of "flexible response"
- fiasco in the Cuban Bay of Pigs
- Thirteen Days that Shook the World--the Cuban Missile Crisis
- RECAP AND OVERVIEW OF THE COLD WAR FROM TRUMAN TO KENNEDY