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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- “The Marshall Plan Myth” by Jeffrey Tucker
- Murray Rothbard’s 1979 article “The Myth of Monolithic Communism” includes a discussion of the role of Yugoslavia during the Cold War.
- Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949 by Thomas Parrish
- “The German Miracle vs. The Welfare State” by Ludwig Erhard. Erhard was the FRG finance minister who removed Allied-imposed price controls from the German economy in 1949 on the advice of economists from the Austrian school.
- Todd Purdum’s “One Nation, Under Arms” discusses George Kennan’s regrets at how the U.S. government misused his policy recommendations.
- Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungary Revolution byVictor Sebestyen
- Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe discusses the events surrounding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- “The Prague Spring . . . and After” by Leonard Liggio focuses on the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (pp. 2-4 of the linked file).
Cold War, Part I – Quiz
- Summarize the territorial changes brought about by World War II in Europe.
- Explain the significance of George Kennan in shaping U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- Identify the motivations behind and consequences of “De-Stalinization” in the Soviet Union after 1956.
- Identify two incidents in which the Soviet Union intervened militarily in the internal affairs of countries in Eastern Europe.
- Reconstitution of Poland further west at German expense
- His “Long Telegram” and subsequent articles led to the development of the Truman Doctrine and the policy of “containment.”
- Russia’s Communist Party believed it necessary to dismantle Stalin’s personality cult after his death. Its release of information concerning Stalin’s oppressive measures led to a temporary loosening of controls on expression, including the publication of work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
- Hungary 1956; Czechoslovakia’s “Prague Spring” 1968