Responsibility of the Breakdown of the Grand Alliance

Last updated Dec 16, 2022 Edit Source

• Not only facts, but need to link back to the responsibility

• US Responsibility

  • Operation Torch and Husky

    • did not open the 2nd front until D-day

  • Postdam Comference: stronger attitute against USSR

    • reasons
      • Roosevelt to Truman
      • Atomic Bomb

  • Invention of atomic Bomb

    • led to escalation of Amrs race

  • Long Telegram

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    • (not really US responsibility)
    • it actually became wall in 1960s (berlin) (showing context)

  • Truman Doctorine

    • contain communism

  • Marshall Plan

  • Bizonia

    • US/UK created new currency and constitution
    • indicated that they were creating new country
      • violated Yalta (decided to vote later for unification)
      • US was afraid of Salami Tactics in Germany

  • Created NATO 1950

  • Created FRG 1950

  • Historiography: Revisionist

• USSR Responsibility
  • Comintern (later Cominform)
  • Comecon
    • against Marshall Plan
    • In fact, USSR controlled economy of Eastern europe
  • Salami Tactics
    • breaching Yalta
  • Czech Coup
  • Berlin Blockade
    • Act against Bizonia
  • Created GDR 1950
  • Created Warsaw Pact 1954
  • Historiography: Orthodox

• TWE responsibility of breakdown

Pearson Cold War and Americas

• p11
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• p51
  • Views of 3 historians

• Orthodox: pro american
• Revisionist: anti american
• Post-revisionist: not blaming both sides,
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