History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 7, 2005  

THE HIGH COLD WAR, 1947 – 1953  

TERMS TO KNOW:

  1. America’s “preconceptions.”
  2. United Nations
  3. Greek Civil War
  4. Truman Doctrine
  5. Marshall Plan
  6. Berlin Blockade
  7. NATO
  8. DeGasperi
  9. Adenauer
  10. Robert Schuman
  11. Korean War
  12. DeGaulle
  13. Czechoslovak Purges

From Perry:

14.  Khrushchev

15. Churchill

16. Kennan

QUESTIONS

  1. What went wrong?  Why did the world so quickly fall back into armed camps poised on the brink of war?
  2. Think through “alternative realities.”  What could have happened in the late 1940s?  Be realistic, but be imaginative.  We know what did happen, but what could have happened?

 

 

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