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The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953

The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953. We waited for them to come ashore. We could see their faces. They looked like ordinary people. We had imagined something different. Well, they were Americans! - Liubova Kozinchenka , Red Army, 58 th Guards Division. The Origins of the Cold War.

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The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953

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  1. The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953

  2. We waited for them to come ashore. We could see their faces. They looked like ordinary people. We had imagined something different. Well, they were Americans! -LiubovaKozinchenka, Red Army, 58th Guards Division The Origins of the Cold War I guess we didn’t know what to expect from the Russians, but when you look at them and examine them you couldn’t tell whether, you know? If you put an American uniform on them, they would have been American! -Al Arson, U.S. Army, 69th Infantry Division

  3. “Both of the ideologies…were meant to offer hope…One of them, however, had come to depend, for its functioning, upon the creation of fear. The other had no need to do so. Therein lay the basic ideological asymmetry of the Cold War.” -John Lewis Gaddis

  4. The Two Powers

  5. The Roots of Containment George F. Kennan

  6. The Truman Doctrine

  7. The Marshall Plan

  8. The Berlin Blockade and NATO

  9. The Growing Communist Challenge Mao Zedong

  10. The Cold War Turns Hot: Korea, 1950-1953

  11. Cold War Critics George Kennan Walter Lippmann

  12. Imperialism and Decolonization

  13. The Cultural Cold War

  14. Cold War Propaganda

  15. Cold War Propaganda

  16. Cold War Propaganda

  17. The Anti-Communist Crusade Alger Hiss Mickey Spillane

  18. Loyalty vs. Disloyalty The Hollywood Ten J. Edgar Hoover: FBI

  19. McCarthy and McCarthyism Edward R. Murrow Joseph R. McCarthy

  20. Atmosphere of Fear

  21. The Uses of Anti-Communism Francis Cardinal Spellman: The American Pope Billy Graham

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