IB HOA ~ Unit 3, Day 2

• Students will be able to:

…describe the successes and failures of President Harry Truman’s DPs.

HW:

• Truman PLO due this Wed.• Truman quiz (approx. 30

points) also on Wed.–Based on lecture notes & PLO.

Soviet Union’s perspective?• After WWII Soviet leaders concerned about

security! – Germany had invaded Russia twice in less than

30 years; the Soviets did not want it to happen again.

– Soviets wanted to keep Germany weak to ensure the countries between Germany and the Soviet Union were under Soviet control

• Soviets also believed communism was superior, that it would eventually replace capitalism, and that they should encourage communism in other nations. – They accepted Lenin’s theory that capitalism

causes wars (and imperialism) and would try to destroy communism.

1) The Fair Deal (1945-53):

2) The Great Strike Wave of 1946:

•…Truman’s Feud with the Unions (1946)

3) Mid-term Elections (1946):

ADD ↓ ~ Fueling the Cold War: Communist-led Rebellions in Greece &

Turkey• inspired Truman Doctrine, which justified U.S. intervention in regional conflicts in name of preventing spread of communism.– The Truman Doctrine subsequently served as

the framework for American foreign policy in this era.

• critics of Truman: charged T overreacted & “needlessly polarized the world into pro-Soviet & pro-American camps & unwisely construed the Soviet threat as primarily military in nature.”

• apologists for Truman: have argued that T’s fear of “a revived isolationism…led him to exaggerate the Soviet threat and to cat his message in the charged language of a holy global war against godless communism….”

4) (Racial) Civil Rights:

General Info:Executive Order

9981 (1948):

5) Views on Defense Spending:

ADD →

1949: Soviets now had the atomic bomb, too

(which obviously heightened tensions

between the U.S.A. & the U.S.S.R.).

6) McCarthyism (1950s):

Elia Kazan receiving an Honorary Oscar

• Youtube.com clips:– Elia Kazan honorary Oscar– McCarthyism HUAC hearings

Take out PLO assignment & lecture notes for supplemental note-taking….

Harry Truman American Experience

Start at → 1:21:30