- Norway, Sweden, and Denmark feared the soviets and trusted the Americans.
- The American strategy for the Korean war would be used in Vietnam adecade later
- HST did not lose China to the communists, but his diplomats and advisors in Asia served him poorly.
- HST was more skilled at listening to advisors than FDR
- One of Truman's greatest achievements was his ability to formulate a bipartisan foreign policy
- Most American's wrongly assumed that all communists were united + friendly
- The US bears the war guilt burden in the Cold War
- Truman did not extend New Deal social welfare legislation, with the notableexception of Social Security, but
- Harry S. Truman + FDR were different in personality but similar in substance
- American policymakers went into the postwar years with the assumptionthat they could continue to work with the USSR.
- By the early 1950s, US-USSR diplomacy was virtually non-existent because the war had been militarized.
- when do the germans surrender? armistice...
- Where was the French training base for new soldiers?
- What do we call the ridge of the trench
- what was teh camp where soldiers trained?
- what was the road in which the batallion marches out of ypres?
- How many British soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme?
- What did soldiers rub into their feet to protect them from Trenchfoot?
- What did soldiers put on a handkerchief to protect themselves from poison gas?
- This battle was designed to relieve pressure on the French who were fighting the Germans at...?