Traditionalist Revisionist Post-revisionist

    | behaviors in war |
    - SU aggressiveness
    - rape exceeded 2 million German women, including Ukrainian and Polish who were forced
    - invasion of eastern, south-eastern Europe and Finland
    - demanded excessively for US arms when already suceeding over Germany
    - Warsaw uprising ignored
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    - delaying of the 2nd front distrusted SU
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    Expansionism
    - SU demands for military bases in the Straits and mandate in Libya
    - SU ultimatum to Turkey against the Montreux Convention
    - 1924 the People’s Republic of Mongolia
    - SU invasion of Finland & exclusion out of the League of Nations

    - US ideology, politics, economic, strategic elements require expansions
    - Open Door policy
    - capitalist struggle for markets
    - SU impossible for expansion

    - overestimation of SU threat:
    - Yugoslavia aiding Greece communists
    - SU retreated from Turkey and Iran
    - SU failure in Libya
    Personal qualities
    - Molotov failed to charm
    - Stalin paranoid and psychopath

    - FDR’s subtle vs. Truman’s black and white
    - Byrnes’ failed nuclear diplomacy
    hostility
    - Communist dogma

    - US Containment policies
    - US reduced economic assistance to Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary
    - Baruch Plan
    - for the first time US had a permanent standing army
    - US dramatic increase in military budget and spending
    - US strategic Air Command established 1946
    - 1950, SU 5 A bomb, US 700+
    - 1947, CIA set up
    - March 1947, US embargo of strategic goods to SU
    - Lend-Lease ended
    - credit offered on unacceptable terms
    concessions
    - US concession of 2 non-communist ministers to Romania & Bulgaria = US recognition
    - SU withdrew from Iran and Turkey after US showed discontent
    - Yalta - Declaration of Liberated Europe
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    | | | Neg. portrayal |
    - SU barbarism; no demeanor
    - Katyn forest + 4000 Polish officer bodies
    - Communist ideology
    - repeating same points
    - delaying meetings
    - abruptly shifting arguments
    - SU unbending enemy; not conceding
    - SU exploiting economic miseries
    - require US to help
    - Berlin blockade
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    - US fickle in policies
    | | | propaganda |
    - repetitive and naive; in negotiations & propagandas, SU are the only good people & opponents bad
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    - US intentionally overestimating SU to rally morale and have consistency
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    - public declarations of ideology made by both sides
    - foreign dicated by domestic
    - US public against traditional European diplomacy
    | | ignorance / misunderstanding / mistakes | |
    - US always thinking the worst case scenario
    - assumption of Domino theory
    - US abrupt policies
    | | | values |
    - Marxist-Leninist dogma
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