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Challenges to Liberalism Related to Foreign Policy 7Chapter Challenges to Liberalism Related to Foreign Policy 7Chapter KEY SKILLS Analyzing the impact of physical and human geography on history KEY CONCEPTS Analyzing how ideological conflict shaped post–Second World War Figure 7-1 L international relations The Berlin Wall was a physical manifestation of the iron curtain metaphor used by British prime minister Winston Churchill. Key Terms Brinkmanship Less than a year after the end of the Second World War, the wartime Cold War leader of Britain, Winston Churchill, delivered a speech that Containment popularized the term iron curtain to describe the line in Europe Détente between self-governing countries of the West and countries in Eastern Deterrence Europe under communist Soviet control. The iron curtain became a Expansionism metaphor for the division between American and Soviet ideologies. Liberation movements Those on either side interpreted the curtain differently: Americans McCarthyism viewed it as a barrier meant to contain those oppressed by Nonalignment communism, a restriction to civil and economic freedoms, and Soviets saw it as a protective measure, a means of protecting themselves from Proxy wars capitalist influences and the potential expansion of fascism. 232 Chapter 7: Challenges to Liberalism Related to Foreign Policy The following excerpt is from what has become known as the Iron Curtain Speech, which Churchill gave at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946. The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with this primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. As you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done, but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. Opportunity is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries. To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the aftertime… I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain—and I doubt not here also—toward the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. It is my duty, however, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. The safety of the world, ladies and gentlemen, requires a unity in Europe, from which no nation should be permanently outcast. It is from the quarrels of the strong parent races in Europe that the world wars we P AUSE AND R EFLECT have witnessed, or which occurred in former times, have sprung. —Winston Churchill, “Iron Curtain” speech, March 5, 1946. Churchill’s metaphor—iron Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University. curtain—could have many http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html implications on foreign policy. What meanings and Churchill, speaking right after the Second World War, can be seen as implications might be either a messenger who is trying to warn the free world of imminent associated with this term? danger or as an alarmist who is provoking a fight unnecessarily. You will learn more about this historical time period in this chapter. In the meantime, given the context of the quotation above, to what extent do you believe Churchill may have been encouraging conflict with the Soviet Union based on ideology? What information do you already have that might help inform your response? Part 2 Issue: To what extent is resistance to liberalism justified? 233 Chapter Issue The Cold War (1945–1991) shaped the second half of the 20th century, and it continues to have significant influence not only on international relations, but also on the citizenship and daily lives of people around the world. In this chapter you will investigate and consider the Cold War and related examples of international conflict to explore the Chapter Issue: To what extent does ideological conflict shape our world? During the Cold War, most of the world was split in two camps: those nation-states allied with the Soviets and communism and those allied with the Americans and democratic liberalism. This chapter will help you understand the role that ideology played in the division between these two superpowers, and how ideological conflict shaped international relations after the Second World War. As you explore and investigate the Cold War, use what you have learned in previous chapters to consider how liberalism was affected by this ideological conflict, and how citizens and citizenship were impacted by the promotion of communist and liberal democratic ideologies. L Figure 7-2 Chapter Issue: To what extent does ideological conflict shape our world? Question for Inquiry Question for Inquiry #1: #2: To what extent did In what ways did this ideological conflict conflict of ideologies affect international affect societies and relations after the people’s everyday Second World War? lives? 234 Chapter 7: Challenges to Liberalism Related to Foreign Policy International Relations after the Second World War Question for Inquiry • To what extent did ideological conflict affect international relations after the Second World War? In 1927, Joseph Stalin predicted the following: …there will emerge two centers of world significance: a socialist center, drawing to itself the countries that incline towards socialism, and a capitalist center, drawing to itself the countries that incline towards capitalism. Battle between these two centers for command of the world economy will decide the fate of capitalism and of communism in the entire world. —Josef Stalin, speech to American workers delegation, 1927, quoted in George Kennan, “Excerpts from Telegraphic Message from Moscow of February 22, 1946.” http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/longtelegram.htm The Cold War, which followed the Second World War, was an all-out political, economic, and social struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States: they both wanted victory over not only each other, but also over other countries around the world. Understanding the relationship between these two powerful countries will help you answer the question To what extent is resistance to liberalism justified? In this chapter we will first look at the political relations between countries with conflicting ideologies, focusing on the United States and the Soviet Union. Then, we will look at the impacts of these conflicts among other countries and in the lives of citizens around the world. As you read this chapter, think about Stalin’s prediction and ask yourself to what extent it was correct and what other international tensions have arisen because of competing ideologies. Part 2 Issue: To what extent is resistance to liberalism justified? 235 June 1940 France falls to the German and Italian forces. Feb. 1945 Leaders of the United States, Britain, Summer 1940 and the Soviet Union meet at Yalta, Battle of Britain is fought as Germany attempts USSR , to establish an agenda for to break the British air force; however, Britain governing postwar Germany. Stalin’s is ultimately successful in its air defence views differ from those of Churchill against Germany. and Roosevelt, and the differing June 1944 agendas of communist and Aug. 1939 June 1941 Operation Overlord begins on democratic countries emerge. Non-aggression pact between Nazi Nazi Germany invades June 6 (D-Day) with the landing Germany and the Soviet Union , the Soviet Union. of 155 000 Allied troops on the May 1945 Germany surrenders and concluded only a few days before beaches of Normandy, France. is divided (along with Berlin) into the beginning of the Second July 1941 The battle continues for more zones of Allied occupation. The Soviet World War. It divided eastern A mutual assistance than two months and results Union begins to build a buffer zone of Europe into German and Soviet agreement is signed by in the liberation of Paris and satellite states in Eastern Europe to spheres of influence. Britain and the Soviet Union. a significant German retreat. protect its borders. 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Sept. 1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland. Dec. 1941 Feb. 1943 July 1945 War is declared on Germany Pearl Harbor is bombed German ground forces are Leaders of the United States, Britain, by Britain, France, Australia, by Japan; Britain and the defeated for the first time and the Soviet Union meet at the New Zealand, and Canada. The United States declare in Europe at Stalingrad by Potsdam Conference to discuss United States declares itself neutral. war on Japan. Soviet forces. postwar Europe and the continuation of the war against Japan. Sept. 1940 Tripartite Pact is signed Aug. 1945 uniting the Axis powers The first atomic weapons are of Germany, Italy, and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. The Soviet Union without Soviet knowledge, creating proposes to sign the pact, panic and fueling Soviet paranoia. but receives no invitation from Germany. Figure 7-3 L Yalta This timeline illustrates some of the In February 1945, the Allied forces could see that the Second World key events of the Second World War in Europe. Notice some of the shifting War would soon end and the “Big Three” met at Yalta (on the Black alliances that occur.
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