The End of World War II and the Origins of the Cold War

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The End of World War II and the Origins of the
Cold War

• HST 112
• Ethan Pollock
• Lecture 19 (3/29/04)

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Review

• 1930s Popular Front, Spanish Civil War, Nazi
  Expansion, Appeasement and the Hitler-Stalin Pact
• War Blitzkrieg, Defeat of France, Operation
  Barbarossa

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III. The Turning Points

• US Enters the War 1941
• North Africa Invasion of Italy (1943)
• The Siege of Leningrad
• Stalingrad 1942 and the Soviet
  Counter-Offensive
• D-Day

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IV. Allied Victory

• --The Big Three Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
• --- The Origins of the Cold War
• -- Victory in Europe
• --The Defeat of Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• --The Horrors of War Holocaust and Total War

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Europe after World War II

• Economic Devastation
• Refugees
• Political Instability

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Origins of The Cold War

• A Basic Timeline
• 1945 Hiroshima
• 1947-1949 Est. Soviet Puppet Regimes in Eastern
  Europe
• 1947 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
• 1948-49 Division of Germany, Berlin Blockade and
  NATO
• 1949 Communist Revolution in China
• 1949 Soviet Union Tests its first Atomic Bomb
• 1950-1953 Korean War

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Cold War The View from Washington

• I. The Truman Doctrine
• II. The Marshall Plan
• III. The Berlin Airlift and the Formation of NATO
• IV. The Korean War

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Cold War The View from Moscow

• I. Geopolitics and Eastern Europe
• II. Military Power and the Atomic Bomb
• III. Divided Germany and Western Influence
• IV. The Communist Revolution in China and the
  Korean War

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Whos Responsible?

• Orthodox Historians
• vs.
• Revisionist Historians
• vs. Post-Revisionist Historians