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Containment Policies through Political Cartoons

J. Oerlemans

1947

The Truman Doctrine

  • Announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947.
  • Purpose was to prevent (contain) the spread of Soviet power and influence.
  • Stated that the U.S. would provide economic, political, and military assistance to democratic nations if they were threatened by authoritarian forces either foreign or domestic.
  • Provided $400,000,000 worth of aid to Greece and Turkey.
  • Opened up the possibility for U.S. intervention in military conflicts around the globe.

Reference: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine

1947

1948

The Berlin Blockade

  • Was the first crisis of the Cold War.
  • Soviets blocked all access to Berlin on June 24, 1948.
  • The Allied forces (U.S., Britain, and France) launched a campaign to airlift food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases.
  • The crisis ended on May 12, 1949 with the division of west and east Berlin. Allied forces were to have access and control of the west, while the east was to remain under Soviet control.

Reference: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift

1948

1950

Korean War

  • Soviets supported Kim il Song in the North
  • The U.S. supported Syngman Rhee in the South.
  • The U.S. did not get involved in the civil war until June 1950 after Kim Il Song conquered most of the Korean Peninsula.
  • After a U.N. Coalition led by the United States entered Korea and pushed Kim Il Songs army back to the 38th Parallel, the People's Republic of China entered the war.
  • After years of fighting, the North and South reached a truce. This truce made the 38th Parallel the border between South and North Korea.

Reference: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/korean-war

1950

1960's

Mutually Assured Destruction

  • By the 1960's, nuclear weapons were being produced by the United States and Soviet Union en masse.
  • Both nations based their security on Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). This policy considered that neither the U.S. or the Soviets would want to use their nuclear weapons because it would mean the other would counterstrike.
  • President Nixon considered using nuclear weapons in Vietnam, however, realized the Soviet Union could retaliate.
  • Mutually Assured Destruction both prevented and contributed to the thought of nuclear war.

References https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/atomic

1960

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

  • In 1962, a United States spyplane flying over Cuba found out that the Soviet Union had been storing nuclear weapons on the communist controlled island.
  • This caused wide spread panic and became an international crisis, as it was the closest moment the U.S. and Soviets came to nuclear war.
  • JFK's response was to create a blockade on Cuba, not allowing goods and military weapons into or out of the country.
  • Nikita Kruschev responded by sending Soviet ships through the blockade, however, they did not carry weapons and were allowed through, others turned back and the crisis calmed.
  • The financial embargo that resulted from the blockade still exist to this day.

Reference: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis

1962

1965

U.S. Involvement in Vietnam

  • The Vietnam Civil War began in 1955 between followers of Ho Chi Minh in the North and South, and the Southern Vietnamese government.
  • The U.S. got involved after 1964, when two U.S. destroyers claimed they had been fired upon by Northern Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • After 1965, the U.S. began building its military presence in Vietnam as congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War.

Reference: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/gulf-of-tonkin

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