{"id":81,"date":"2024-01-19T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2024-02-01T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:45:09","slug":"cold-war-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/course-syllabus\/cold-war-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Which side deserves the most blame for starting and continuing the Cold War?<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Thesis Framework<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Revisionist historians attribute greater responsibility for the Cold War to the United States. According to Revisionists, US policy after World War II was neither passive nor benign. It was driven more by economic considerations and national self-interest than the principles of democracy and self-determination.&#8221; &#8211;Jennifer Llewellyn and Steve Thompson, &#8220;Cold War Historiography,&#8221; AlphaHistory<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/\"><strong>American Yawp, Chapter 25:\u00a0 Cold War<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#I_Introduction\">I. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#II_Political_Economic_and_Military_Dimensions\">II. Political, Economic, and Military Dimensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#III_The_Arms_Buildup_the_Space_Race_and_Technological_Advancement\">III. The Arms Buildup, the Space Race, and Technological Advancement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#IV_The_Cold_War_Red_Scare_McCarthyism_and_Liberal_Anti-Communism\">IV. The Cold War Red Scare, McCarthyism, and Liberal Anti-Communism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#V_Decolonization_and_the_Global_Reach_of_the_American_Century\">V. Decolonization and the Global Reach of the \u2018American Century\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#VI_Conclusion\">VI. Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/25-the-cold-war\/#VII_Primary_Sources\">VII. Primary Sources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Early Cold War Timeline<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Liberal journalist Walter Lippmann was largely responsible for popularizing the term <em>Cold War<\/em>\u00a0in his book\u00a0<em>The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em>, published in 1947.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;American Yawp<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1944-5 \/\/ Bretton Woods (IMF and World Bank) and United Nations<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1945 \/\/ End of WWII and Truman succeeds to presidency<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1946 \/\/ Kennan\u2019s Long Telegram &amp; Churchill&#8217;s Iron Curtain Speech<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1947 \/\/ Truman Doctrine<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1947 \/\/ Kennan&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221; Article<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1947-48 \/\/ Marshall Plan<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1948-49\/\/ Berlin Airlift<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1948 \/\/ Truman (Democrat) wins second term<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1949 \/\/ NATO<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1949 \/\/ Soviets test atomic bomb (fission)<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1949 \/\/ Communist China<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1950 \/\/ Sen. McCarthy (R-WI) claims communists in State Department<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1950 \/\/ NSC-68 offers new strategy for global Cold War<\/li>\n<li class=\"suEOdc\" data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1950-53 \/\/\u00a0Korean War<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1952 \/\/ US tests hydrogen bomb (fusion)<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1952 \/\/ Eisenhower (Republican) elected president<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1954 \/\/ US Army \u2013 McCarthy hearings &amp; then censure vote<\/li>\n<li data-tooltip=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\" aria-label=\"1945 Ministers Meeting\">1954 \/\/ Break up of French Indochina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>American Culture and Cold War<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKqXu-5jw60?si=ml-6lOrlNpau2rK_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>McCarthyism Glossary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-224\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-1024x861.png\" alt=\"McCarthy\" width=\"629\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-1024x861.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-768x646.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-1536x1291.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-900x757.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM-1280x1076.png 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-31-at-8.47.06-PM.png 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)<\/li>\n<li>Army-McCarthy Hearings<\/li>\n<li>Communist Party (CPUSA)<\/li>\n<li>Hiss-Chambers Case<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood Ten blacklist<\/li>\n<li>House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)<\/li>\n<li>John Birch Society<\/li>\n<li>McCarran Act<\/li>\n<li>McCarthyism<\/li>\n<li>Pledge of Allegiance<\/li>\n<li>Popular Front<\/li>\n<li>Rosenberg Case<\/li>\n<li>Second Red Scare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/01\/ALPHA-on-Historiography.pdf\">ALPHA on Historiography<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#The_role_of_historians\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">1<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">The role of historians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#Why_differing_perspectives\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">2<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">Why differing perspectives?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#The_Orthodox_school\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">3<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">The Orthodox school<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#American_passivity\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">4<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">American passivity<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#Revisionist_historians\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">5<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">Revisionist historians<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#The_spread_of_Revisionism\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">6<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">The spread of Revisionism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#The_Post-Revisionists\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">7<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">The Post-Revisionists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#The_work_of_Gaddis\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">8<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">The work of Gaddis<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#Other_Post-Revisionists\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">9<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">Other Post-Revisionists<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#Post-Cold_War_perspectives\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">10<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">Post-Cold War perspectives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"lwptoc_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alphahistory.com\/coldwar\/cold-war-historiography\/#Huntington_and_Fukuyama\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><span class=\"lwptoc_item_number\">11<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"lwptoc_item_label\">Huntington and Fukuyama<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which side deserves the most blame for starting and continuing the Cold War? 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