PPT-The Truman Doctrine and its Consequences

In early 1947 Britain announced that it could no longer afford to resist the spread of communist influence in Greece and Turkey Therefore Truman announced that the US would provide aid to anticommunist forces in these areas This policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine . Libertyville HS. Election of 1944. Dem nominee: FDR (of course . . . ). GOP nominee: Thomas Dewey (NY governor). Campaign focused on New Deal, FDR’s popularity. Wartime successes during campaign. THE COLD WAR BEGINS. 22.1 – ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. Yalta Conference . – US, GB, and USSR met at Yalta in 1945 (Feb.) to discuss . the postwar world. Tensions increase between . Soviet Union and Allies. Harry S Truman. 33. rd. President of the United States. . Birth and Childhood. Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Born to John and Martha Truman. Grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Grandview. Do Nagasaki and Hiroshima constitute a crime against humanity?. Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits the unlawful killing of civilians during wartime.. Between 150,000-240,000 civilians died as a result of both bombs, another 2,000 died later in Hiroshima from cancers that could be directly traced to the radiation emitted by the blast.. A Tree of Night. Truman Capote. Born in New Orleans, Sep. 30. th. 1924. Raised by relatives. Rough childhood, reflected in education.. First published in 1945, “Miriam”.. Interested in darker aspect of human psyche.. Ryo Kambayashi. Institute of Economic Research, . Hitotsubashi. University. Workshop on minimum wages. Lessons from recent experiences and European perspectives. 20. th. Oct. 2017, Paris . What I will talk today …. Quotation from reading: . Thus does the movie [The Truman Show] offer us a metaphor for our own situation. The fake landscape Truman lives in is our own media landscape in which news, politics, advertising and public affairs are increasingly made up of theatrical illusions. Like our media landscape, it is convincing in its realism, with lifelike simulations and story lines, from the high-tech facsimile of a sun that benevolently beams down on Truman to the mock sincerity of the actor he mistakenly believes is his best friend. It is also rewarding and masquerades as something benevolent. And it is seamless -- there are almost no flaws that give away the illusion -- at least until things start to go wrong.. Truman and the atomic bomb . FDR dies April 12, 1945. Truman becomes President . Atomic Bomb dropped August 6. ,. 1945. Truman’s “Get Tough” Style. Truman had a personality ill suited for diplomacy. . Journals. Sharing. Shakers. Doctrine and Covenants 46 . (FOLLOW UP). Gifts…. Do you recognize this young man?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IOxt1Z3pDk. Something new in the Scriptures. Doctrine and Covenants 47-49. 1945 - 1952. Truman as President . April 12, 1945. NOT FDR. No $$, no college, failed business. ‘34- Senator. Decisive, blunt, loyal, confident, self-assured. What’s the plan?. New Deal .  - New Dealers . Background. Born in Lamar, MO (1884). MO a former slave state. Maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves. Ancestors supported the Confederacy. Moved to Independence (1890). Segregation and racism are prevalent. General Theory. Religions suggest this world is not the “real” world.. . According to Buddha: “A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”. After the war, Soviets made it clear that they were a nation of enormous economic and military strength. They, unlike the U.S. however, had suffered much devastation on their own land. . 20 million Soviets had died, half of them being civilians . His parents divorced so he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama. He was then raised by his mothers relatives for 5 years. He was neighbor and friend of Harper Lee who is the author of . To Kill a Mockingbird .