When writing background knowledge to extract claims -> not necessarily must be in the time frame

    • e.g. major confrontations & events of allied leadership
      • not only limiting to the events before what the passage is focusing on but also those after it

    to demonstrate Truman’s distrust in SU

    • evidence: how his policy deviates from those of appeasement to containment

    methods of SU control

    • Cominform
    • COMECON
    • propoganda
    • Red Army
    • lying for self-determination
    • command economy

    examples of US concessions & SU

    • e.g. Red Army ignoring the Polish Home Army to the Fascist happen

    major instances

    • 1943 Tehran
    • 1944 Polish Home Army
    • 1945 Yalta, Potsdam
    • 1946 Turkey, Iran
    • 1947 MP, TD

    US concessions to the SU

    • Curzon and Oder-Neisse line
    • acquiesence of east Europe to SU
    • didn’t intervene in Poland

    SU proposal for a German unification

    NATO

    • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    • alternative by France:
      • European Defense Community (the one by France)
    • Iceland - used for submarine inspecting against the SU
    • 12 founding members

    SU overwhelming conventional forces

    National Security Act 1947

    • NSC-68
    • shift into the Containment policy

    first US peace-time standing army in 1947

    Red Army

    • strongest conventional military power (on land)
    • Polish Home Army
    • propoganda value
    • ideological spread
    • rape of German women, Ukrainian and Polish
    • with Red Aemy = domination of SU communism
      • e.g. Red Army not in Yugoslavia -> more freedom

    The Cold War was set for the following 4 decades (1989 fall of the Berlin wall)