Dred Scott V Sanford Decision Term Paper

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3. In February 1946, the U.S. Treasury asked the U.S. Embassy in Moscow why the Soviet Union was not supporting the newly created World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Kennan wrote the response to these questions, but included a broader base.

4. Initially, the intended audience was the American government, but when the document was published in Foreign Affairs, the audience became the academic and interested public, along with a way to get the message to the populace about the actual motives of the U.S.S.R.

5. Kennan was far from being reactionary. He left out specifics on Soviet aggression, but was writing based on the actions that he actually observed after World War II, and the signals he received from his diplomatic contacts within the Soviet government.


6. The Kennan document, along with the Truman Doctrine, are seen as the basic documents that established U.S. foreign policy towards the Soviet Union after World War II, and the initiation of the Cold War from the U.S. side. Even by 1946, President Truman was frustrated with the Soviets and their lack of honor in the already agreed upon post-war issues. Truman asked one of his senior advisors, Clark Clifford, to prepare a report that would detail Soviet conduct; the Kennan telegram provided the basis for….....

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