The USA 1945-1975

• Indirect military confrontation
• US and USSR support factions in developing world

o Not allowing supplies to come in to West Berlin
o Decided to unify economy of west economy
o Stalin wants to remove western part of Britain
o Cold War is becoming more conflicted
o Stalin ultimately backed down
• NATO created
o Including Greece and Turkey –
o Binding treaty with collective security
o If one is attacked, all come to aid

• Last dynasty fell in 1911
• A civil war emerged after that between nationalists and communists
• WWII interrupted the Chinese Civil War
• When WWII ended the war continued
• US supported the nationalists
• Soviets supported the Communists (leader is Mao)
• 1949 Communists won – Nationalists fled to Taiwan
• US had always had its eye on China as a trade party and a buyer and seller of goods
• US invested a lot of and goods and resources to the nationalists and they lost
• US realizes that
• US refused to recognize Maoist China as China
• Didn’t see it as a gov’t
• US recognized Taiwan as China – fewer people
• Basically the US completely ignored China and treated Taiwan as China
o Soviet Union

• Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb
• Stalin has a bomb now = scary
• This causes and arms race
• Creates conflict and anxiety in the American mind

• Says that Soviet Union is doing evil things behind iron curtain
• Britain is no longer a great power- align with US
• Trying to have a British voice regarding the USSR
• Concern that US would retreat – isolation

o Aid for the rebuilding of Europe
o Rebuilding Japan