The Americans The Russians

Sec. of State Nikitia Khrushchev 1953-64

James F. Byrnes 1945-47

(Byrnes was FDR’s “assistant president” for domestic affairs and Director of the Office of Demobilization and Reconversion 1945)

George C. Marshall 1947-49

Dean G. Acheson 1949-53

Others

Ambassador to the Soviet Union Andrei Gromyko, 1943-45

Roosevelt Administration Soviet ambassador to the US
George Kennan –

US Embassy’s charge d’affaires, Ivan Maisky 1939-43

Roosevelt Administration Soviet ambassador to England / Assistant People's

Commissar For Foreign Affairs

Harry Hopkins – Close Roosevelt Advisor

Maxim M. Litvinov

General Leslie Groves – Deputy Foreign Minster and Chairman of the

Director of the Manhattan Project Commission on Post-war order

Walter Lippman - Journalist "Anti-Truman Doctrine"
The British The Historians
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister 1939-1945 The Orthodox

Foreign Minister Arthur Schlesinger

Anthony Eden George Kennan

William McNeill – America, Britain, & Russia:

Their Co-operation and Conflict 1941-1946

Clement Attlee, Prime Minister

Ernest Bevins William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of

Gabriel Kolko – The Politics of War: The World

Barton J. Bernstein

John Lewis Gaddis

Bruce Cumings

Melvyn Leffler

IB Topics in 20^th Century History

Log Requirements & Reading assignments

The Origins of the Cold War 1941-45
Required Reading:

Martin McCauley, Origins of the Cold War 1941-49

1. 
   Setting the Scene (1 log)
   
2. 
   Moscow’s View of the World, Conflicts during the War, 1945: The Turning-Point, Decisions which led to divisions, The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, The Soviet Response (1 log)
   
3. 
   Was it all Inevitable (1 log)
   

1. 
   Introduction: The Burden of History (to 1941) – 1 log
   
2. 
   Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945) – 1 log
   
3. 
   Only Two Declarations of Cold War (1946) – 1 log
   
4. 
   Two Halves of the Same Walnut (1947-1948) – 1 log
   

1. 
   Prescribe Subject 3 – The Cold War 1945 - 1964
   

Topic 1: Causes, practices and effects of war

1. 
   How justified is the claim that ‘the United States had no choice but to use atomic bombs against Japan?’
   
2. 
   Discuss the immediate effects that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had on the progress of the Second World War.
   

Topic 5: The Cold War

1. 
   ‘Ideological differences played little part in the origin of the Cold War.’ How far do you agree with this judgement?
   
2. 
   Why have historians found it difficult to reach agreement in assessing responsibility for the Cold War?
   
3. 
   Account for the divergent views of the main participants [Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin] at the conferences of Teheran and Yalta and explain how these differences caused problems in Germany and Eastern Europe up to 1950.
   
4. 
   How did the following factors contribute to the breakdown of the wartime alliance and to the beginning of the Cold War: (a) different post-war needs; (b) ideology; (c) record of distrust?
   

Log Requirements:

For each log entry you must complete all of the following that are applicable

1. 
   Complete citation (author, title, publication information, & date of publication)
   
2. 
   Type of writing / Audience for the writing
   
3. 
   Major Thesis
   
4. 
   Supporting information
   
5. 
   Specific quotes that illuminate the author’s argument
   
6. 
   Strengths and limitations of the source
   
7. 
   Your response to the reading (how has the reading effected your understanding of the subject)
   

Rubric:

A = All logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner, No missing entries.

B+ = Most logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner, few logs do not deal with all issues, No missing entries.

B = Some logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner, many logs do not deal with all issues, No missing entries.

C+ = Missing entries, All logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner.

C = Missing entries, Most logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner, few logs do not deal with all issues.

D+ = Missing entries, Some logs deal with all applicable issues in a thoughtful manner, many logs do not deal with all issues.

D = Majority of entries are missing.

F = No Log.

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