ELECTION OF 1948TRUMAN, DEWEY, THURMAN

HST UNENTHUSIASTICALLY NOMINATED“GIVE ‘EM HELL HARRY” & FAIR DEALSTRONG ON CIVIL RIGHTS

DEWEY FOR THE REPUBLICANS – TRASH HST RECORD AS BEST THEY CAN

S. THURMAN – DIXIECRAT – SEGREGATIONIST RESPONSE TO CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM OF DEMS

WALLAGE – RUNS AS PROGRESSIVE

COLD WAR LIBERALISM: PRESERVE CORE OF N.D. WELFARE STATE, CONTAINMENT, ROOT OUT COMMIES AT HOME

TRUMAN LOSES CONTROL- RED’S EVERYWHERE3 ISSUES HIT ADMINISTRATION HARD• JAPAN EMBRACED PEACE &

REDUCED MILITARY & W/ MACARTHUR’S HELP GOT NEW CONSTITUTION & SOVEREIGNTY RESTORED 1951

• CHINA – CIVIL WAR RAGED & TO SELL MARSHALL PLAN RATCHET UP THE RHETORIC

• $2 BILL HAD GONE TO NATIONALISTS BUT TO NO AVAIL

• HST NOT WILLING TO COMMIT TROOPS SO REPUBLICANS BLAME HST & LACK OF DIPLOMACY FOR COMMUNIST TAKEOVER OF CHINA

SPIES & MORE SPIES

ALGER HISS & HUAC – HAD BEEN AT YALTAW. CHAMBERS CALLS OUT HISS; BOTH COMMITTED PERJURYHISS SENTENCED & JAILED

ROSENBERGS: GUILTY OF PROVIDING A-BOMB INFO TO SOVIETSWERE REPS. RIGHT ABOUT FDR?

MACARTHY: “I HAVE THE NAMES OF 206…”GREAT RUN FROM 50-54 BUT CRASHED & BURNED

NORTH KOREA INVADES SOUTH KOREA• POST WWII KOREA DIVIDED TEMP-ORARILY

AT 38TH PARALLEL & JOINT OCCUPATION BY SOVIETS & AMERICANS

• AS EUROPEAN TENSIONS INCREASE BORDER BECOMES HARDENED

• NORTH KOREA WANTS UNIFICATION & STALIN RESISTED UNTIL THEY WORE HIM DOWN W/ PROMISE OF A QUICK VICTORY

• 6/25/50 NK INVADES SK – 3 YEARS OF BLOODSHED

• HST ASKS UN FOR PEACE ACTION, SOVIETS BOYCOTTING UN SO CAN’T VETO, UN SAYS YES TO PEACEKEEPING FORCES

• D. MACARTHUR IN CHARGE, BUSTS LOOSE, DRAWS IN CHINESE, SACKED BY HST

• CONSEQUENCES: COMMIT TROOPS W/O CONG. APPROVAL, CONTAINMENT NOW INTERNATIONAL POLICY, HST GAVE INTO HUGE MILITARY BUILD UP

ELECTION OF 1952: ERA OF POLITICAL MODERATION UNDER D. EISENHOWER

TRUMAN/KEFAUVER/ STEVENSON – DEMSEISENHOWER & NIXON – REPSECO SOUND SO NOT AN ISSUE

IKE WAS WAR HERO, BALANCE W/I DIVIDED REP. PARTY: TAFT ON CONSERVATIVE END & ROCKEFELLER ON THE LEFT

MODERATE NOT ELIMINATE NEW DEALNIXON, GIFTS & CHECKERS SPEECH

CONTAINMENT GUIDES IKE IN FOR. POL.• “NEW LOOK” DEFENSE POLICY

STEP UP PRODUCTION OF H-BOMB & DEVELOP LONG RANGE BOMBING CAPABILITIES – SOVIETS WILL MATCH US

• DULLES, SEC. STATE, “ROLL BACK THE SOVIETS” AGGRESSIVE STANCE AGAINST COMMUNISM

• CONTAINMENT COSTLY• CONCERNED ABOUT STABILITY

MORE THAN DEMOCRACY ABROAD

• DULLES’ BRINKMANSHIP & MASSIVE RETALIATION – COLD WARRIOR TO THE BONE

• ROLE IN SHORING UP ALLIES EVEN IF CONTROLLED BY REPRESSIVE GOV’TS: IRAN, CUBA, S. KOREA, PHILL., NIC, S. VIETNAM

• NATO & SEATO – DEVELOPING NATIONS MUST CHOOSE SIDES: POST COLONIAL WORLD

• STALIN DIES 53, KRUSCHEV TAKES OVER ‘56

EMERGING NATIONS & E. EUROPE• SEATO 1954: US, EURO ALLIES &

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, PAKISTAN, PHIL., & THAILAND

• CENTO 1959-79 IRAN, PAKISTAN, TURKEY, UK & US – CIA RUN BY ALAN DULLES

• IRANIAN PREMIER TRIED TO NATIONALIZE OIL INDUSTRY BUT OUSTED BY CIA & REPLACED WITH SHAH, REZA PAHLAVI – EVENTUALLY LEADS TO IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN 79 – OPPRESSIVE OK AS LONG AS NOT COMMUNIST.

• CIA COUP IN GUATEMALA AGAINST DEM. ELECTED RULER: TRIED TO TAKE BACK LAND OWNED BY UNITED FRUIT 1954

• IKE APPROVED CIA OPS• KRUSCHEV & PEACEFUL

COEXISTENCE BUT NIKITA HAD LIMITS

• HUNGARIANS REVOLT 1956 & CRUSHED, BUDAPEST A SLAUGHTERHOUSE